I just saw a documentary that makes me wonder...for the states and counties that still use electronic voting...
Is the fix already in?
I know there have been initiatives in many states to steer away from electronic voting...But if this 2006 documentary is correct.
Are there enough hackable systems out there to steal 2008, or is the Republican brand tainted enough to avoid narrow wins, the type that are more easily created via hacking...
If Diebold memory cards can (or could have in 2000,2004 or 2006) in fact be hacked to add negative votes to one candidate and give positive votes to another prior to election day as the documentary indicates....
I know some folks don't have access to HBO, but their internet site does give a small video clip and a synopsisof the documentary "Hacking Democracy."
Caucuses don't matter.
Primaries don't matter.
Internet fund raising doesn't matter.
Giving access to the electoral process to voters with each and every different type of impairment does not matter, if the game is rigged.
Smoke filled rooms are now a geek with a plan and a memory card.
What do you do against that, if the local Board of Elections in your county has Diebold (or a similarly hackworthy system) and doesn't have the will or the money to change?
Sitting out this election seems abhorrent to me, so I won't do that.
Is computer hackery one of the underreported reasons that those on the right may pull this one out after all?
Has the other side said to their guy "Worry not. The fix is in."
Damn. Just Damn.