Election Theft Goes Global

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From Ohio and California to Scotland and France, the disputes surrounding electronic voting machines have gone truly global.

E-voting machines have already been extensively studied and condemned by a wide range of expert committees, commissions and colleges, including the General Accountability Office, the Carter-Baker Commission, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Stanford University and others. Rigging of a recount in Cleveland has resulted in two felony convictions. The failures of e-voting machines have been the subject of numerous documentary films, including the aptly titled HBO special "Hacking Democracy."

Now the secretaries of state in Ohio and California are subjecting e-voting to still more official review. Ohio's Jennifer Brunner has announced she'll seek bids to conduct independent studies of both touch-screen machines, which record votes electronically, and optical scanners, which tabulate paper ballots electronically.

Brunner has already removed the entire board of elections of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) in part because of a major fiasco caused by new electronic machines in the state's 2006 primary election. Voting rights activists vehemently opposed the $20 million purchase, but it was rammed through by Board Chair Robert Bennett and Executive Director Michael Vu.

The machines then caused long reporting delays. Vu resigned under pressure from the board. Bennett then resigned---along with the rest of the board---under pressure from Brunner. Bennett chairs the Ohio Republican Party, works closely with White House advisor Karl Rove, and was instrumental in delivering Ohio's decisive votes to George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Two felony convictions have so far arisen from what prosecutors call a "rigged" recount that occurred that year in Cleveland, under Bennett's supervision.

Bob Fitrakis is a political science professor in the Social and Behavioral Sciences department at Columbus State Community College and editor of the Free Press.

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Let's see... a ruling class party hegemony not wanting to use electronic voting machines that could be abused with little difficulty both here and abroad in other countries. Given the rife and flagrant abuse of all political systems regardless of beginning intentions have progressed to be abusive in power, Republic/Premier/What-have-you... corruption is rampant.

Is it right? Of course not. Will it ever pass? Hopefully, but it will take some people with more morality to do what is right than what money can buy.

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The hippie left should be proud that we are not cutting down trees and burning fossil fuels..

Extremely coincidental that whenever the left loses, the blame falls on fraud corruption etc. Never ever on their failed ideology..

Unlike those corrupt republicans. I heard ING has a new stack your cash in the freezer account which dems seem to be signing up to..

Edited May 14, 2007 by Infidel