To the best of my knowledge, Bev Harris was the first journalist to get involved, and she brought the story to scoop. See http://www.blackboxvoting.com
Scoop's been involved in this one since about January, but weren't the first to get hold of the files.
It bothers me the way the 'mainstream' media are ignoring the political ramifications of this discovery, and have painted it as simply a case of poor software design. These voting machines have been produced by companies run by hard right politicians, and look like they are probably designed for the purpose of manipulating votes. Combined with the well documented oddities in the past two election results, it appears that they have been rather successful to date. Bush's government has provided massive funding for the purchase of these voting machines by the states, and has removed legal requirements for any sort of paper trail. Unless this is taken seriously, american democracy is dead.
Slashdot Mirror
To the best of my knowledge, Bev Harris was the first journalist to get involved, and she brought the story to scoop. See http://www.blackboxvoting.com
Scoop's been involved in this one since about January, but weren't the first to get hold of the files.
Scoop's got a feature page linking to all the updates on the story at href="http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usa coup
It bothers me the way the 'mainstream' media are ignoring the political ramifications of this discovery, and have painted it as simply a case of poor software design. These voting machines have been produced by companies run by hard right politicians, and look like they are probably designed for the purpose of manipulating votes. Combined with the well documented oddities in the past two election results, it appears that they have been rather successful to date. Bush's government has provided massive funding for the purchase of these voting machines by the states, and has removed legal requirements for any sort of paper trail. Unless this is taken seriously, american democracy is dead.