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and suppression--mostly of black and other minority voters because they have very high rates of voting for Dems. But he says nothing about Bushite corporations controlling the tabulation of all of our votes, in the new NON-TRANSPARENT electronic voting systems, run on 'TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code, with virtually no audit/recount controls--a voting system deliberately designed by Tom Delay and Bob Ney (and Bilderberg 'Democrat' Christopher Dodd) for non-transparency and control by partisan rightwing corporations, who were given a $4 billion boondoggle to implement it.
With this system, they can easily switch/flip/disappear small percentages of votes, here and there, throughout the nation, or a state, and produce any outcome they want. One hacker, a couple of minutes--a few lines of self-erasing code--leaving no trace.
I puzzled over 2004, wondering why, with this untraceable fraud capability, they bothered to stir up anger with blatant, visible, illegal vote suppression in Ohio and other places. My deduction: the new electronic voting systems--probably the central tabulators--had to be pre-programmed to certain formulae/percentages and were not that easily changed on election day. Kerry's win was bigger than expected. They needed EXTRA effort to beat him--thus the Ohio and other suppression at the polling place. (This doesn't account for the pre-election voter purges, though--maybe that was technophobia; the old pols didn't trust the promises of the new techies.)
Now, today, we are seeing more and more challenges of these election theft machines--lawsuits, grass roots movements in many states, election officials rebelling against the corporations or getting pummeled with questions and trouble; many failures, much insecurity in the machines--really crapass machines--and a serious movement to throw them out. Lots and lots of people (50% in Calif) opting for Absentee Ballot voting--they don't trust the machines. Maybe THAT's why the fascists are concentrating so hard now on voter purge capabilities. Maybe they're way ahead of us--and knew all along that their election theft machines would be mothballed, so they'd better have other ways of stealing elections.
Anyway, the interaction between these two methods of fascist control--non-transparent, electronic voting systems, and purging voter rolls/overt vote suppression--needs to be analyzed and understood.
What this says to me is that the solution will not be easy. It will require complex, activist vigilance--by citizens and candidates--of many aspects of the voting system, over a long period of time, and many other reforms besides just dumping the election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor'--in order to have fair, transparent elections.
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