It's Time to Get Back to Work on Election Integrity
Political activist Ellen Olenska sets the stage for what needs to be done in order to restore integrity to our elections systems, i.e., get rid of electronic tabulations.The Oregon mail-in system should be the model, and all votes could be linked to Social Security numbers to ensure accuracy and prevent fraud. All computerized systems, monitored in total secrecy by private corporations, not by the American people, have been proven failures, and most Americans rightly believe that they exist at all for the purpose of stealing elections. The Help America Vote Act was developed at the Crawford ranch in the summer of 2002 where Diebold CEO, Walden O’Dell, a major Bush fundraiser, was a frequent guest. O’Dell was given multi-million dollar government contracts in exchange for creating a voting system, unverifiable and linked to central computers, that in the end proved capable of changing vote tallies and erasing and/or flipping votes. Such a system had the potential to give Karl Rove his “permanent Republican majority”.
For an excellent history of how and how many elections have been stolen using electronic voting machines, there's this disconcerting article by Michael Jay over at the Huffington Post:
Mark Crispin Miller said it: There are two types of people in the world; those who address election integrity issues, and the happy people….
We've since seen the evidence on Ohio from Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman, authors of How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election & Is Rigging 2008 and Richard Hayes Phillips, author of Witness to a Crime, which includes photos of 30,000 doctored ballots and poll books. (This evidence was introduced to Congress by Rep. John Conyers.) I watched Dan Rather's special report, in which whistle blowers from Sequoia elections systems told how the company changed their paper standards prior to the 2000 election, solely so as to send unworkable ballots to heavily Democratic Palm Beach, Florida.
I learned that the “HAVA” laws introduced after the 2000 election debacle, ostensibly to fix things — especially through electronic voting — were substantially written by the disgraced Republican lobbyist and felon Jack Abramoff.
Read the full article here. Be forewarned; it's not for the faint of heart.
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