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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 03:26 PM
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Is the media finally getting half the rigged voting machine story?
The fact that electronic voting machines don't work may finally be sinking into a segment of the mainstream media. The fact that e-voting machines can, have been, and will be used to steal elections, continues to go unreported.

At least the corporate media have moved from framing the allegations of e-voting fraud as “conspiracy theory” into reporting epic errors in election results.

Both USA Today and the New York Times have run recent articles on the mechanical problems surrounding electronic voting that mirror much of what happened during the theft the presidential election in Ohio 2004.

On March 28, USA Today's front page reported, "Primary voting-machine troubles raise concerns for general election." The story focused on primaries in Illinois and Texas, where all-too-familiar problems include more votes being counted than there were registered voters, and thousands of votes missing from a recount.

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_650.shtml
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 03:41 PM
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1. One can only hope.
"American blackout" indeed.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 04:13 PM
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2. Exposing the machines is the issue
If it works to get people to reject the machines because they don't work, or at least demand open code and verifiable paper ballots, then that's the way to move forward.
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Skarbrowe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-01-06 04:36 PM
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3. Hopefully it's not a set-up to throw out the Dems win in 2006.

I am just so cynical! It popped up somewhere in the back of my head that they could now be talking about all the voting machine problems to have some kind of half-baked plan to try and throw out a possible Democratic mid term election landslide. "Whoa!". Democrats take back the House and the Senate?! Hold on. These machines are malfunctioning! We have to throw out these election results until all the machines are..uhum..fixed."

I don't put anything past the Republican Party. Anything.

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