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In reply to the discussion: Robert Mueller is now looking @ Jared Kushner's work in data analytics for the Trump campaign* [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)They probably jumped up and down and clapped their hands. I wouldn't doubt they had influence on lobbyists for Diebold and other voting machine companies when their use was first being debated.
Not only the use of hackable machines to decide a democratic election, but the fact that each fricken state takes care of its own voting system ....for a federal election....is astounding. That there is no federal oversight, that their is no federal rights to open the code of these private companies to a public inspector, even if for reasons of securing the foundation of the democracy, voting.
Democrats should be demanding that, at least for the next election, we only use paper ballots and hand counting. That there be federal oversight.
You know that if this were the other way around Republcans would be screaming on Fox and every network that the election was stolen and we need to retire these machines! I don't know why Dems are so damn meek all the time.