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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 01:25 PM
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5. Well, I'd say having your good buds at Diebold and ES&S "count" all the
Edited on Thu Sep-21-06 01:30 PM by Peace Patriot
votes with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls, and having these extremely insecure and insider hackable voting systems fast-tracked all over the country with a $3 billion-plus federal boondoggle and unregulated lavish lobbying, entitles you to do anything you damn please to black, brown, poor, elderly, student and other Democratic voters. Who can stop you? Smashing the poor is a perk of getting Diebolded into office.

The 5% to 10% "thumb on the scales" for Bushites, warmongers and corporatists, that these Bushite corporations can now EASILY and WITHOUT DETECTION place on our elections, is the foundation of their power. Suppressing poor voters is just extra--and also probably a hedge against the American peoples' discovery of their electronic voting scam.

And the question about the DNC is, why wasn't Terry McAuliffe SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER about BUSHITE CORPORATIONS--Diebold, whose CEO was a Bush-Cheney campaign chair and major fundraiser, and its brethren corporation, ES&S, a spinoff of Diebold, initially funded by rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson (who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon Foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things)--gaining control of EIGHTY-PERCENT of the nation's vote prior to the 2004 election, with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code?!

Question 2: Given this OUTRAGEOUS coup by Bushite electronic voting companies, why did the DNC put an "Iron Curtain" over all talk of election fraud after the 2004 election?

Question 3: Why is the DNC still shilling for these corporations, by saying it's the touchscreens that are the problem, and optiscans are okay--when optiscans and the central tabulators are ALSO run on TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations? Paper ballots are hardly worth the paper they are printed on, if the ballot goes into a box and is never seen again, and your "vote" becomes a bunch of electrons in an extremely riggable electronic system! Is it the money? The big electronics contracts in government? Fear? Fear of the Bushites and another anthrax attack*? Fear of overly powerful, corrupt election officials? Fear of being "swift-boated" like Kevin Shelley (Calif Sec of State) if you oppose Diebold? What?

The Democratic leaders' failure on the matter of Bushite-controlled electronic voting is MIND-BOGGLING.

Not to mention their failure on vote suppression (which could readily be tackled under EXISTING law).

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*(It was the Anthrax Congress that passed the infamous "Help America Vote Act" (HAVA) of 2002--engineered by the biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney (now indicted or resigned in bribery scandals), and abetted by Corporate 'Democrats' like Christopher Dodd and Terry McAuliffe. ALL BUT TWO of our US Democratic Senators voted FOR this piece crap legislation--the exceptions being (surprise, surprise!) Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer (maybe because of NYers' attachment to their old, reliable, unriggable lever machines). Say they were scared, or ignorant. Fine. Okay. Could be true. But what accounts for their silence NOW? Hm? This is OUTRAGEOUS--Bushite corporations gaining SECRET control over vote tabulation. It's a NO-BRAINER. It's PATENTLY ABSURD. It's totally MIND-BLOWING. It's a GODDAMNED FASCIST COUP! HOW could they be SILENT about this?! Are they IN on it, or what?)

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THROW DIEBOLD, ES&S AND ALL ELECTION THEFT MACHINES INTO 'BOSTON HARBOR' NOW! BUST THE MACHINES--VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT THIS NOVEMBER!

If everyone who despises the Bush Junta (60% to 70%!) votes by Absentee Ballot, the reign of these diabolical machines is OVER!

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