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In reply to the discussion: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections [View all]AikidoSoul
(2,150 posts)and do whatever you want them to do. You can design them to disappear and then reappear in four years, or whatever time frame you wish.
These voting machines are proprietary. If fraud is suspected, you're shit out of luck because trade laws prohibit that you investigate the firmware, hardware or software.
It should be paper ballots, preferably optical scan, because then at least you have something solid....paper...not ethereal electrons.
But then there should be OPEN SOURCE tabulation software that counts the optical scan ballots.... because that tabulation software can also be rigged.
Stalin said, "it's not he who votes that counts, but he who counts the votes."
I don't get why we haven't learned from the 300,000 flipped votes in OHIO when Kerry suddenly was on the other side of the lead. How can we be so stupid as to let our Democracy be stolen by these thieving thieves! Election laws should be done at the federal level, open source, and rigidly enforced.
We have spilled much blood over the idea of Democracy....now it's time to protect that idea.