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UCmeNdc

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Wed Oct 31, 2012, 10:21 PM Oct 2012

An Excerpt From “How to Rig an Election”

This was not the only deception surrounding the rollout of these electoral Trojan horses. In a 2007 Dan Rather exposé, The Trouble with Touch Screens, seven whistle-blowers at Sequoia charged that company executives had forced them to use inferior paper stock for ballots during the 2000 election. What’s more, said the whistle-blowers, they had been instructed to misalign the chads on punch cards destined for the Democratic stronghold of Palm Beach County. “My own personal opinion was the touchscreen-voting system wasn’t getting off the ground like they would hope,” said Greg Smith, a thirty-two-year Sequoia employee. “So, I feel like they deliberately did all this to have problems with the paper ballots.”


http://harpers.org/blog/2012/10/an-excerpt-from-how-to-rig-an-election/

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An Excerpt From “How to Rig an Election” (Original Post) UCmeNdc Oct 2012 OP
Here's a link to the full article. Harper's hid most of it hedda_foil Oct 2012 #1

hedda_foil

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1. Here's a link to the full article. Harper's hid most of it
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 11:54 PM
Oct 2012

Here's a link to the full article. Harper's hid most of it behind a subscribers-only firewall but I found the whole piece here:

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14198-focus-how-to-rig-an-election

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