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E-voting Patches Skew Election?
Whammy666 writes "Wired magazine has an interesting story of how the much-maligned Diebold E-voting machines were allegedly secretely patched before Georgia state's 2002 gubernatorial election. The patches were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials. The election produced an upset which ended in a major upset that defied all polls. A Diebold contractor tells a worrysome tale of how close to a third of the machines were crashing or locking up and how his tests showed the machines producing errors up to 25%. There are no paper audit trails with these systems so it's nearly impossible to check for fraud or malfunction after an actual election."
What I want to know is, why aren't the politicians who have the most to lose from this issue making more noise about it?
That's is a good question? Why do you suppose that they haven't?
Could it be that they truely did lose, fair and square, and realize that their protests and complaints would not only be a pathetic waste of time but, also a waste of the tax payers money?
But, I'll bet that you think it is because the opposing party is somehow controlling them and making it impossible for them to complain. You see, when you post on what should be a non-partisan subject in an extraordinarily biased and partisan fashion, you lose credibility. Most reasonable people of any party will have already discounted you as biased and full of sour grapes the moment they read your whiny rant at the top of the post.