Why your vote is worth less than a pack of gum.

[Scuba]

Last fall, ES&S quietly purchased Diebold, giving them 80% of market for electronic voting machings. And it's not just the un-auditable vote-counting; they now also own polling place check-in software (electronic pollbooks), voter registration software and vote-by-mail authentication software.

http://www.benalexandra.com/cool_stuff/diebold_ess.htm

This link has very scary information, all with appropriate citations, regarding what could easily be a mass-manipulation of our elections.

They've already been caught registering voters who thought they were just signing petitions. Getting total registered voter numbers higher gives them more room to fudge numbers.

When you buy a pack of gum, you get a receipt. Why is there no receipt/audit trail on our votes? I can only think of one reason.

[babylonsister]

1. In case you don't know, we have a whole forum devoted to

election reform. We've been robbed for years, and probably more elections than we know, though two biggies come to mind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[Echo In Light]

2. Obedient, good americans *KNOW* that so-called election theft is a 'loony' left conspiracy theory

Do I actually need the sarcasm tag?

[Echo In Light]

3. Bump

[Lorien]

4. Election reform needs to be one of our top issues

but unless the MSM tells us it's an issue people-even here on DU-won't pay much attention to it.

[obxhead]

6. yes, everything we push for today,

HCR, regulation of corporations, banks, oil, etc.... it can all be undone with a new corrupt administration.

Until we make every vote count and be counted correctly the pattern of break and not really fix will never change.

[yurbud]

5. it's the last line of defense against actual democracy if campaign contributions, media coverage,

and ridicule don't work to filter the candidates.

[yowzayowzayowza]

7. Thank you.

Message received, http://www.google.com/search?q=scuba+www.benalexandra.com+site:democraticunderground.com&filter=0">again and again and again and... since just Apr 29th.

[Scuba]

8. Thanks. I don't think we can fix the rest of the problems if we don't fix this.

Ergo, my incessant posting. Hope it's not annoying.