more. Bushite companies--Diebold and ES&S--now count the nation's votes using SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code--code so secret that not even our elected secretaries of state are permitted to review it. Not that they would care. They're all off at the Beverly Hilton being wined and dined during a week of fun, sun and high-end shopping (and future job offers), sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia. (This last August, see below*.)
They sold our right to vote away, when they signed contracts with major Bush donors and rightwing billionaires containing "trade secret" vote tabulation. A third of the country with not even a "paper trail." The rest with extremely inadequate auditing. And, finally--the coup de grace--with the war profiteering corporate news monopolies FALSIFYING their own exit polls on everybody's TV screens, late on election day, by "adjusting" their exit poll data (Kerry won) to "fit" the "official result" derived by Diebold's and ES&S's secret formulae (Bush won), thus denying the American people major evidence of election fraud, and squelching protests and calls for investigation.
And until we repair this egregiously fraudulent election SYSTEM, we're going to have Freeper Congresses, spiced with some War/corporate Democrats and a few eccentric, token libs, from now until they get us blown off the map by something other than a hurricane.
My advice: We need to throw these election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW! (--or a Louisiana levee might do!)
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*See Amaryllis' post on the hogfest for our election officials at the Beverly Hilton this August, sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia--it will burn your eyeballs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340