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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.)
I'm sure you will remember this when your state's election machines get hacked by some lefty and you end up with Howard Dean as your governor, despite the fact that all the exit polls showed him getting 3% of the vote. Remember your rule: if your guy lost the election, it's YOUR FAULT. Claiming fraud is just loser talk.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Or how about some tough thats getting paid to "enoforce the vote" in their neighborhood. Everyone has to show them their receipt that they had voted for the "correct" candidate or get roughed up. Still can't understand??