Homer Simpson "tries" to vote for Obama
http://www.youtube.com/...
Hal-like voice of the Electronic Voting Machine:
"1 vote for McCain, 2 votes for McCain, 3 votes for McCain --
6 votes for President McCain."
Homer Simpson realizes something is wrong:
"This Machine is Rigged!
Must ... tell ... President ... McCain !
This doesn't happen in America, Ohio Maybe, but Not America!"
That Homer Simpson video is funny -- well
because in all humor, there is usually
a kernel of truth.
Sadly it may be truer than any of us realize --
As reported by Thom Hartmann recently on Air America,
the following is just the beginning of the scary News Stories
about those Electronic Voting Machines with a mind of their own.
(most likely won't be the last)
Vote Flipping in Davidson County, Tennessee
By David Earnhardt
"A poll worker directed me to a touch screen voting machine & instructed me how to use it. I touched "Obama" for president & nothing lit up. I touched 2 or 3 more times & still nothing lit up. I called the poll worker back over to tell him I was having a problem. He said I just needed to touch it more lightly. I tried it 2 or 3 more times more lightly with the poll worker watching & still nothing lit up. The poll worker then touched it for me twice — nothing lit up. The third time he touched the Obama button, the Cynthia McKinney space lit up! The McKinney button was located five rows below the Obama button. The poll worker just kind of laughed and cancelled the vote. He hit the Obama button again & it finally lit up. I continued on to cast the rest of my votes. After completing the process & reviewing my votes, I went to the VOTE page, hit the VOTE button & nothing happened. Again after several tries, I called the poll worker over & he finally got the machine to register my votes. Hurray — I voted! — or did I? I left the polling place feeling uncertain." Patricia Earnhardt - Friday, Oct. 17 - Howard School Building - Nashville, Tennessee
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/...
Professional IT experts have examined the vulnerabilities of Electronic Voting Machine ...
And their findings are hardly hopeful:
7 scariest problems with today's voting machines
In our research to create DVICE's Guide to Voting Machines in the USA, we discovered that some voting machines are vulnerable to hacking, some machines are more prone to mistakes than others, and new machines can flummox voters and poll workers alike. While the chance of a complete meltdown is pretty small, we found a handful of facts about the machines that point to the possibility (but not necessarily the probability) of mistakes, hacks and lost votes.
- Rejected Ballots
- Hack the AccuVote
- Malicious Firmware
- Not So Tamper-Proof
- Ten Percent Fail
- Critical Security Failures
- Paper Problems, Too
http://dvice.com/...
And a How to Video from the previous article:
Hack the AccuVote [which is easier than you might think]
Researchers from Princeton University show how you can hack into an Accuvote-TS machine [Diebold's] in less than a minute.
http://www.youtube.com/...
[Hhmmm? it must be a "faulty design"...]
Princeton Study Details
from the Center for Information Technology Policy -- Princeton University
Hello "Benedict Arnold", the next "selected" winner, coming to an Election near you.
With no real paper trail, there's no real problem -- right?
It's like one of those "Trees falling in the forest" riddles ...
If no one sees the Votes switching sides,
How do you know, it even happened ???
You can hardly go and ask everyone, how they voted?
now can you?
As reported on Rachel Maddow, last night:
Rolling Stone
Block the Vote
Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?
ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
Are you still registered to Vote?
Are you sure? Millions have been dropped from the Voter Rolls recently
For a one-stop shopping to check your Voter Registration go here: votepoke.com
ATMs give us a Paper Receipt.
Fast Food Restaurants give us a Paper Receipts.
When will Americans get a "Paper Trail" Receipt,
with their next "Order of Democracy"?
America can "put a man on the moon" ...
but an accurately verifiable count of your Votes --
No Way -- that's just too hard!
What is wrong with this Picture?
What is wrong with America?
(I think I just heard another Tree Falling ...)