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Will the Next Election Be Hacked?
plasmacutter writes to let us know about the new article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Rolling Stone, following up on his "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" (slashdotted here). Kennedy recounts the sorry history of electronic voting so far in this country — and some of the incidents will be new even to this clued-in crowd. (Had you heard about the CERT advisory on an undocumented backdoor account in a Diebold vote-tabulating database — crediting Black Box Voting?) Kennedy's reporting is bolstered by the accounts of a Diebold insider who has gone on record with his concerns. From the article: 'Chris Hood remembers the day in August 2002 that he began to question what was really going on in Georgia... "It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to keep it secret from the state," Hood told me. "We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from [president of Diebold election unit Bob] Urosevich...' According to Hood, Diebold employees altered software in some 5,000 machines in DeKalb and Fulton counties, the state's largest Democratic strongholds. The tally in Georgia that November surprised even the most seasoned political observers. (Hint: Republicans won.)
Interesting recollection of the Florida ballot controversy. The sad fact (for you at least) is that both PARTIES approved the ballot, not some lone republican super spy who was pretending to be a dem.
wow.. you're very deluded.. and are hell bent against your own interests.
Democrats are no more "condescending" than the elitist republican snobs are, but there is a difference.. while all politicians regardless of party are annoyingly disconnected with the common man, the democratic party has been centered for the majority of the 20th century on the idea that if you're a worker then they will make sure you're middle class, that you can afford to send your kids to college, and that you'll have the spare cash to engage in that one expensive hobby you want to.
Republicans want to eliminate the middle class, they shout "moral values" and demonize "democratic condescension".. then turn around and destroy the basis of the "flyover country's" income streams.. then turn around and scream "class warfare" when democrats try to take 1 million of the waltons' 100 trillion dollar annual budget to help feed the poor.
Think about it before you go off on rants about the great democratic conspiracy. You're not sticking it to the man when you vote republican, youre sticking it to yourself.
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So had I voted, it wouldn't have counted.
Seems I was right. Not that I liked either canidate. Kerry back'ed out to soon, showing even he was approving Bush.
There was no election, only an illusion of one.
Perhaps the US government needs to be honest to the people it is supposed to represent.
No president has ever been impeached.... why is that? The system doesn't work as intended.
The government should fess up about who was really responsible for the anthrax attacks on the media.
Though it should be obvious it didn't have to be a conspiracy, just one military personal who had enough clearance, rank and knowledge as to how to deal with anthrax, to not be questioned when he took a very small amount, hardly noticable, from the military base.
What kind of country is this that does such things?
Oh I know, They wanted to show the terrorist that they can be worse then the terrorist.
Terrorising the terrorist...
Yeah, America is safer now.....Bush said so.
I understand the military is going to try out some new non-lethal weapons on Americans first.....
What really started the chain of events leading to 9/11 was wrongful world economic manipulation via world stock market manipulation --- google "trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript. Know where dot com boom money came from and what really caused the bust and failures like Enron, Worldcom and the likes...
Politically controlled military backed worngful world economic manipulation.... What were the three targets of 9/11?
Did it really make a difference whether or not the election was real or a hacked? NO as the real problem is clearly larger than that,
We have a government that has enough power to threaten the media that most americans listen to and believe. To threaten the media into saying whatever the government wants it to say.
Ultimately any exposure of this reality will accomplish what?
How could americans remove the lil'hitler adminastration?
So the answer is that this country has turned into a dictatorship under the guise of a democracy.
It has become the evil it claims to be fighting against.
And there is not a damn thing the American People can do about it. Mainly because most don't believe it.
When you know your voe doesn't count, will you still vote?
. . . if they are claiming election fraud on Oct 1st. This is just sad. Plus, all credibility was lost when Cynthia McKinney claimed election fraud when she was trounced by another democrat after hitting a cop with a cell phone. You can't keep crying wolf. Democrats keep losing elections, and instead of blaming themselves, looking at themselves, they blame Fox News, or butterfly ballots or voting machines. Just sad to watch.
Every time this subject comes up, someone from a country with a parliamentary system posts something like this. Hint: we have a completely different system of government in this country. Really!
RFKJ is a weird, sick puke. If there is a point to be made, you could not find a worse spokesman on the face of God's green earth than this sick puke.
The next thing to remember is to put next things next.
Stop making this a Republican vs. Democrat thing, asshole. People like you who stand vehemently behind one party, despite whatever they do, are what's ruining America. This is a Constitution vs. Politicians thing, or maybe "the People" vs. Politicians.
If violating the constitution, making it legal to assume people guilty before proven innocent, and cheating elections is not a royal fuck up, then nothing is. And let me say, I don't support the Democrats any more (nor any of the "alternatives").
you're not gonna get a vote in 2008... there'll be a state of emergency declared and elections suspended for the duration...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
I don't need RFK to tell me the election was rigged. UCLA did a study of the results, comparing all the counties where a discrepancy between the actual results and exit polls occurred and almost every last one across the nation swung in favour of Bush and swung that way very, very late on election day. It was such a late swing that some media outlets reported Kerry as the winner based on the exit polls and had to retract the next day. Statistically speaking, the study determined that there was 1 chance in over 100 000 that this happened due to random occurrence. Guess which machines were in use in almost all the counties showing discrepancies - Diebold. You may not want to admit it, but something stinks to high heaven and seeing as Bush just got his wish and removed the Habeus Corpus rights that you've had since 1215 AD, I have no illusions as to how far his administration will go to get what they want.
I'll tolerate anything except intolerance.