| Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
| BradBlog: MSM's Finally Paying Attention to the eVoting Crisis |
From my favorite of all conspiracy nuts, Brad Friedman of the super green BradBlog who has been all over this, the greatest crisis facing our democracy today. Other then, of course, the crisis of Liberals who continue to live and breathe, but thats a given.
This is one of many quotes which appear at the top of his homepage:
"Either every vote is sacred, or democracy is a sham."
- David Cobb, Green Party presidential candidate, 12/2/04 Abso-fuckin-lutely!
Here are the posts from Brad's Blog: here and here
The key excerpts are from the original articles so I'll just list a couple of them. Follow the links above if you'd like more info.
When the debate hit fever pitch before last year's presidential election, many conservatives said questions about the machinery were a liberal ploy to undermine confidence in the voting system.
Sancho agrees that good security is key, but said he's not sure he won't also have problems with the $1.3 million ES&S system, which he'll also test.
and this
And then more actual common sense, spoken out loud by Elections Official (and American Democracy's latest hero!) Sancho:
Sancho said Diebold isn't the only one to blame for hacker-prone equipment. The Florida secretary of state's office should have caught these problems early on, he said, and the Legislature should scrap a law severely restricting recounts on touch-screen machines and equip them with the means of producing a paper trail.
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"These were sold as safe systems. They passed tests as safe systems," Sancho said. "But even in the so-called safe system, if you don't follow the paper ballots, there is a way to rig the election. Except it's not a bunch of guys stuffing ballots in a precinct. It's possibly one person acting in secret changing thousands of votes in a second." |
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