bradblog.com — A week before the midterm elections HBO is planning to air a documentary about the fragility of electronic voting systems in the US. Isn't this timing a little suspect considering that nothing can be done within such close proximity to the elections if the general public actually starts to listen to us nerds?
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lsdeathOct 13, 2006
@kylesellersOh I dont know I think a 200% voter turnout sounds a little suspicious<a class="user" href="http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1853&Itemid=113">http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1853&Itemid=113</a>
carpespasmOct 13, 2006
they are probably not worried because the machines are not hacked en-mass by individual hackers. it would take too much time and effort, but when you have control over what voting machines are used, and how they are set up ahead of time, they can do whatever they want with them.
jimntexasOct 13, 2006
"Wow, Gore is the one being accused of stealing the election? Where does one read up on this fascinating development?"Florida has a huge military population. Gore sent lawyers into every county to challenge every military absentee ballot. At the same time he attempted to force counties to count all ballots from convicted felons. That's the Democrats for you. Votes for felons, but not soldiers.
revadOct 14, 2006
How come it is only Democrats that have problems voting? Why is it the Democrats who are against showing ID to vote?Why did a Dem, Francine Busby, encourage illegals to vote?In MO last week, why where the voter registrars caught illegally campaigning for a Democrat?
memitimOct 14, 2006
Why is partisanship your key concern when discussing the potential abuse or technical flaws in a voting system with very little oversight? I'm very confused by how you partisans always gravitate toward ad hominum attacks toward one another rather than favoring the safeguarding of the democratic process. As far as I can see, that saber rattling has been far more detrimental to the American political process than any attempt by select individuals or groups to subvert the voting system for their own means.There are many good people who work within the political process but the potential for power also attracts some of the worst of humanity. It is vital to safeguard ourselves against that sort as much as possible, and blindly lashing out with attacks irrelevant to the subject at hand merely clouds the issue and helps to prevent the oversight which is so desparately needed when so much is at stake.It is not a question of whether the Diebold systems are flawed, as that has already been proven. It is not a matter of whether the flaws in the systems present a significant enough potential to do harm to the democratic process, as that is inherent in a system known to be flawed. The only question that remains is this: Are there adequate safeguards in place to ensure that the will of the people is being rightly represented?The answer is simple in this case: NO. That's not a Rupublican or a Democrat issue. That is an American issue, one that threatens the very fabric of our nation. No number of terrorist attacks, whatever the toll in life and property, can ever cause a threat to the freedom and democracy of our great nation. But undermining the political process, particularly when it involves the direct involvement of the people, can very well bring down all that we hold dear.All that I ask is that you put away your blind partisan prejudices, just for a short while, and question the legitimacy of the results provided by a voting system with no real safeguards in place developed by a company that would rather attempt to legislate away any oversight of their methods rather than work with their fellow citizens to ensure that the democratic process is being upheld and protected.
olljOct 14, 2006
What still can be done? destroy a diebold e-voting machine on sight.Stop crying like "voting doesn't matter anyways".If you did not demonstrate as US citizen to impeach Bushs nonsense like on 10.5.06 just SHUT THE f**k UP.Europe is trustfully going to rape the shaddow that will be left from your faith-based regime if you do not stop it, which we sadly know for long, you fail to every day!
olljOct 14, 2006
i guess revard also blames democrats for 9/11 terrorits attacks.
dedo77Nov 1, 2006
Sadly, most people in this country continue to turn a blind eye to the legislative developments concerning our freedom.....our democracy.....our reputation......our economy....holy *&%$ how could this all happen without people giving a damn???? Now its illegal to protest without filing some form with the names and addresses of all those to be protesting. Additionally......a)Military Commisions Act 2006 & b)John Warner Defense Authorization Act 2007....both already signed into law paint a bleek picture of what would happen if we all did move to inact change through protest in masse. In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions.Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law." Not to mention they are and have been conditioning the american populus to just accept when it comes....to not even recognize it when it comes. Go to work, look around, turn on the tube, pick up a news paper.( CASE & POINT)Watch out people.....we have just become a dictatorship.....the elections are strictly for formality sake. They know most americans dont read and dont have a histroical memory of more than a couple of weeks when it comes down to the details of truth. Lets me emphasizes that word. TRUTH: this is all that can save us now.
dedo77Nov 1, 2006
Jimntexas....I don't regard my self as a democrat or a republicrat...ahem I mean democan...oh no I mean republican. When it comes down to it they are quite similar over history in this reference: ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY. But anyway Jim, you and yer fella texans enjoy the imposed toll roads being built . These are gonna take a bite out of your @$$. By the way, the republicans that you grovel at the feet of (Revad...you to buddy), will again be bowing to special interests and first taking roads built w/ tax dollars, and then making them into toll roads that will be sold to private foriegn investors. Thats republican for you, take care of your buddies and foriegn specials interests before the needs of Americans (DUBIA, SAUDIA ARABIA, TOLL ROAD INVESTORS, CHINESE DEBT FINACERS). Yea...go ahead and vote punks again as they completely sell our country away because Jim....well, i digress....