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The news that America's mainstream media has cancelled exit polling in 19 states, means that insider election theft this November is now even harder to track, and therefore easier to get away with - something that scarcely seemed possible.
As I've written in the November issue of Harper's Magazine ("How to Rig an Election" , our voting system is already privatized, corporatized, computerized and arguably less secure than Vegas slot machines. It's also controlled by a shadowy cartel of right-wing affiliated companies that keep merging and changing their names, perhaps - and almost certainly in the case of Diebold - to avoid association with the record of white-collar criminal charges and convictions that trail them from state to state.
Precious few methods now remain for verifying results generated by these corporate "black box" touch-screen voting machines and optical scanners, which have been proven (ad nauseam) by experts to be vulnerable to insider rigging and outsider hacking. This evidence remains long unreported by the mainstream media, which ignore the kind of stories now broken weekly at the Brad Blog, like the latest White Hat hack of Diebold voting machines: In September, 2011, the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Labs gained controlling access to the electronic votes within the machines using $20 in parts and the equivalent of an 8th grade science education.
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The Red Shift has been detected in both state and federal American elections, where computerized vote totals have consistently "shifted" - often by a 5 percent to 7 percent margin disparity (sometimes less, but sometimes much greater) - in comparison to hand-counts and polling data. This mysterious seismic lurch invariably pushes votes to the right, and when the dust settles, it has inordinately benefitted GOP candidates and ballot issues.
To conceal these unnerving discrepancies that strongly suggest computerized vote rigging, exit pollsters began "adjusting" their final reported numbers - literally forcing polls at the end of Election Day to better align with the voting machine results.
Surprisingly, this is not a criminal or even covert act, but common knowledge amongst pollsters (though certainly not the American public) and accepted practice.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12213-americas-media-just-made-vote-rigging-easier
Samantha
(9,314 posts)There was some earlier information posted here on DU about former Bain-affiliated principals leaving during previous years to join other organizations that were investing in voting machines. Those voting machines are in a number of swing states. While it is true that Ohio has gotten a lot of focus recently, it is also true that that state is not the only state we need to be concerned with. I might be able to find it, and if I do, I will come back and post it here. I did send it to the Obama campaign and requested a response, but nothing. So I am not sure that info was really passed on.
Thanks for posting this thread. Recommended.
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Samantha
(9,314 posts)Here is the link entitled something like Vote Counting Company tied to Romney
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TomClash
(11,344 posts)Hart Intercivic.
ejbr
(5,856 posts)in order to get this matter fixed, since it's only Republican complaints that are taken seriously.