It's Magic! by Greg Palast

[proud2BlibKansan]

Here’s an easy way to spoil a vote: digitize it . . . then lose the digits.

Prestidigitation is the French-derived term for conjury, legerdemain, sleight-of-hand, presto-change-o hand-jive, disappearing trickery . . . or, in the language of Karl Rove, “Helping America Vote.”

Following what the media called the “Florida debacle,” the winners of the debacle agreed to “reform” the voting system. So the Bush administration proposed and Congress passed the Help America Vote Act.

The best way to prevent voting reform is to pass a voting reform bill—especially if it’s written by the folks that helped themselves to your vote in the first place.

The Help America Vote Act is not the most Orwellian named, satanic law ever passed by Congress, but it tries. To avoid ballots with hanging chads, the law simply does away with ballots, providing about $4 billion in subsidies for Direct Recording Equipment (DREs), better known as “computer ballots” or “black box voting.”

more . . . http://www.gregpalast.com/its-magic/

[Blue Owl]

1. K&R

[zeemike]

2. That is how it's done....slight of hand.

And the distraction and misdirection which is so you won't notice it....that is covered by the media.

[AzDar]

3. K & R

[niyad]

4. k and r--just started reading "billionaires and ballot bandits"--more sickening than even I thought

[Zorra]

5. Rep. Dennis Kucinich: "An open and honest examination of the flaws in electronic voting

will lead us to only one possible conclusion: electronic voting machines are dangerous to democracy
because there is no way of ensuring their accuracy."

Dennis is right on the mark, as always.

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. K&R What political parties (especially the republicans) fear most;