YOUR '10 VOTE HAS JUST BEEN BOUGHT!!! - The Rig is Up-By Bob: Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

[kpete]

Diebold and the Electronic Vote : The Rig is Up
Cartoon by M.e. Cohen / HumorInk.com.

Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought

The ES&S purchase of Diebold's voting machine operation is merely the tip of a toxic iceberg...

By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman/ The Rag Blog / September 24, 2009

Unless U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder intervenes, your electronic vote in 2010 will probably be owned by the Republican-connected ES&S Corporation. With 80% ownership of America's electronic voting machines, ES&S could have the power to shape America's future with a few proprietary keystrokes.

ES&S has just purchased the voting machine division of the Ohio-based Diebold, whose role in fixing the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush is infamous.

Critics of the merger hope Holder will rescind the purchase on anti-trust grounds.


But only a transparent system totally based on hand-counted paper ballots, with universal automatic voter registration, can get us even remotely close to a reliable vote count in the future.

For even if Holder does void this purchase, ES&S and Diebold in tandem will still control four of every five votes cast on touchscreen machines. As the U.S. Supreme Court seems poised to open the floodgates on corporate campaign spending, the only difference could be that those who would buy our elections will have to write two checks instead of one.

more
http://www.truthout.org/092509I
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Diebold-and-the-Electronic-by-Bob-Fitrakis-and-H-090925-280.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. ES&S has, as its initial funder and major investor, reclusive far right billionaire Howard Ahmanson,

who also gave one million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals (among other things). ES&S is worse than Diebold! Beware, my friends! Beware!

:patriot:

[mod mom]

3. Beware is correct. The Dems are in control and yet what has been done to correct unverifiable

voting? At this point, I thinking the elite don't want to turn over power to the people so they'd rather some conservative asshole control the outcome then the populace. It's not only the e-voting but HAVA needs repealing!

[msongs]

2. democrats in congress could put a stop to this foolishness IF they choose to do so nt