Voting chaos looms for American election

[kalian]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=491730

The electronic voting system designed for the forthcoming American election is fundamentally flawed and could undermine the trustworthines of the entire US democratic process, a scientist has told the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Funny how the US media isn't investigating this... Gee, I wonder why?
:eyes:

[onebigbadwulf]

1. Because some celebrity just released a sex tape...

or something

[Atman]

2. Bush hopes for the chaos

It is part of the plan. You can count on it.

Election chaos will enable Bush to take any one of a number of actions. Maybe all of them. He can "accept" that the election was not valid and nullify it, calling for a new one. While he remains president in the meantime, of course. He could declare Marshall Law and use his time until inauguration to do more damage. At the very least, it will throw things back to buddies in the courts. Chaos is what Bush thrives upon. It keeps people from looking directly at him.

This is going to be very, very bad.

[oldshoe]

3. Is it too late...

Is it too late to challenge the election boards about using paper ballots?

There have been some pretty "mysterious" results favoring the GOP in the recent past with these gizmos.

The best defense may be to get local statistic experts (universities, etc) to conduct their very best exit polls, on randomly selected polling stations, making sure that some decidedly nuetral organization like the League of Women Voters is involved. Thus, the the reported polling stations results can be checked against reported voting.

It also might be a great idea to ask the UN to supply voting international monitors. Wouldn't thant piss off Rove!

[Raster]

4. "mysterious results" my ass...

The 2002 election in Georgia is a fine example of black-box voting and electronic hijacking of an election.

Max Clelland DID WIN the most votes. The exit polling data WAS NOT WRONG!

[kalian]

5. I'm much more concerned about the so-called "primaries"....

and how all of a sudden, Kerry becomes the show horse...
Just one person's observation...