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In reply to the discussion: Fuck you Jill Stein... [View all]diva77
(7,643 posts)All of the computerized voting companies such as:
Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems)
ES&S
Sequoia Voting Systems
Hart InterCivic
and at Karl Rove whose strategy it was to install Katherine Harris style Secretaries of State in all of the strategic states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida
Start there -- we need verifiable elections where our votes are cast in secret and tabulated in public. Right now, with the computerized systems - DREs, Optical Scanners, Computerized Central Tabulators, etc. things are the EXACT REVERSE: our votes are no longer cast in secret - they are at the mercy of proprietary software (therefore vulnerable since they are not secret to the corporation that owns the software & hardware), and are tabulated in private with proprietary software (therefore vulnerable to whatever lies in the software &/or hardware).
It is nearly impossible to cast a vote that meets with the requirement of every state that votes be cast in secret and publicly tabulated unless paper ballots are used and then hand counted.
The original purpose for being able to cast a vote in secret was to avoid voter intimidation.
Just like Fukushima, computerized voting is a deadly hazard that continues despite being kept off the media radar.