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IN IRELAND...Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan said he was glad to bring this sorry episode to a conclusion on behalf of the taxpayer.
From the outset, this project was ill-conceived and poorly delivered by my political predecessors and as a result it has cost the taxpayer 55 million...
...To help put those costs in perspective, 55 million Euro --- the cost of the systems to the state of Ireland to date --- is about $69.5 million.
In this country, the U.S. wasted almost $4 billion (with a "b" , via the Help American Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, on the very same type of worthless, unreliable, easily hacked machines that the Irish are smart enough to get rid of entirely...
Back to the story... http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9390
A Video Plea for Paper Ballts by lame54
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Good!
lame54
(35,259 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)from those cheating, lying repig companies, with their proprietary software and easily hacked voting machines. (The machines can be programmed to vote, regardless of what the people's vote is.)
If there is no transparency, no possibility of material recounts, how is democracy served? It's not, it's corrupted. And the Bush/Chainsaw bastards pushed this on everyone in the wake of 9-11, when the nation was shell-shocked.
It needs to end.
msongs
(67,347 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Ghost of Huey Long
(322 posts)WE also need to get rid of any electronic tabulation of our votes. WE can count, by hand, in a very short time at most precincts.
They do it in Canada and England. Since when do we need electronic tabulation and voting?
lame54
(35,259 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)Over 92% of the American People support Transparent, Verifiable Elections.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x446445
Looks like an easy WIN/WIN for whoever decides to LEAD.
I had to go waaaaaay out on the Looney, Left Wing Fringe of the Party to find a Democrat willing to talk about this issue, and HE got "re-districted".
Why the SILENCE?
[font size=4 color=firebrick][center] "We CAN have secure elections with Paper Ballots
Publicly Hand Counted at the Polling Stations"
---Dennis Kucinich
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You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)Thanks.