Reply #107: Keeping my paper informed

[PATRICK]

Hopefully they will do a heads up at least following the NYT lead. This is the kind of break we need to get the issue out there. This is a major documentation that is pretty solid in the purchasing debates AND possible lawsuits against Diebold for false claims. The first goal admittedly is to stop and then recall this junk. The second is to snowball the digging into how and why this has happened, the smoking guns on vote fraud conspiracy.

It would be so easy to jump ahead and lump it all together, and given the consequences I would if it were the ONLY way, but I think patience is paying off. Another issue of throwing existent electronic voting systems into disarray and allowing OTHER forms of fraud and disenfranchisement must be kept in mind too. The SERVE program by the Feds and the Pentagon is an expansion of the internet voting proposals. That too is bulling ahead despite security issues from 59 votes to 100,000 in 2004).

Looking at the big picture I see it as a vital part of the neocon blitz, going for all the marbles everywhere and any defeat could unwravel everything. It all seems to fit with the maniacal speed and fanaticism employed against their "foes". Didn't George Bush in Florida and Texas say he trusted machines over the people? It sounded then exactly as it sounds now.