Deadline Live Special Edition: Etectronic [sic] Voting

[clear eye]

Run time: 09:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5XKcT8gTAk   Posted on YouTube: October 08, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 18, 2009 By DU Member: clear eye Views on DU: 284

 
This is a 2-hour, 12-part program which includes an interview with the German man who successfully brought the case before a German court contending that any manner of counting votes which is not transparent to the ordinary citizen w/o special technical expertise is a violation of human rights. When they ruled in his favor, it de facto prohibited the use of all electronic voting and counting machines. (The word "etectronic" is a typo in the original YouTube title.)

The first two parts are fairly boring introductory material, and the interview starts in part four, but the program is already getting interesting in part three.

I originally posted a link for part three since I had only found the URLs for the individual parts, thus necessitating linking to the rest one by one, but since then I found the link for all parts of the program in sequence, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx1RGmYZyIc&feature=PlayList&p=809040671AAEAD83&index=0&playnext=1

I recommend clicking on this link rather than the one on top by the image, and choosing part three on the playlist on that YouTube page. (The editing process unfortunately doesn't permit me to edit the identifying link.)

NOTE ESPECIALLY the distinction in Part 5 Dr. Weisner (he's a PhD physicist) makes between a "real" democracy and a "pretend" democracy.

[Democracyinkind]

1. The host sounds like some kind of RW idiot.

As someone who studies at a top IPCC-member University I simply can't take aynone seriously who claims that global warming resp. climate change is a hoax. While the guests had some valid points, the host sounds like a fucking nutjob.

[clear eye]

2. Irrelevant. The guests are longterm activists and

researchers on this situation. I heard that absurd remark, but Beverly Harris formed "Black Box Voting" in 2000 and has been standing up to enormous pressure in publicizing the latest info on her website. And fortunately the host keeps a very low profile and lets the guests do almost all the talking. There's a tremendous amount to be learned from the program, especially from parts 3 through 9, clarifying exactly what the issue is and why it is of primary concern to us as citizens. It's even more patently absurd than denying global warming, to deny that it's important to get informed on what it takes to have valid elections and what we must do to make that happen.