The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away - Thom Hartmann

[Trajan]

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16474

I dont recall seeing this posted, I could be wrong ....

Its worth another posting ... it's a nice synopsis of the issue, and a good primer for the uninformed ....

Mods: the copyright is posted at the end, and allows reprinting in web media ....


The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away

By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet
July 30, 2003

Are computerized voting machines a wide-open back door to massive voting fraud? The discussion has moved from the Internet to CNN, to UK newspapers, and the pages of The New York Times. People are cautiously beginning to connect the dots, and the picture that seems to be emerging is troubling.


"A defective computer chip in the county's optical scanner misread ballots Tuesday night and incorrectly tallied a landslide victory for Republicans," announced the Associated Press in a story on Nov. 7, just a few days after the 2002 election. The story added, "Democrats actually won by wide margins."


Republicans would have carried the day had not poll workers become suspicious when the computerized vote-reading machines said the Republican candidate was trouncing his incumbent Democratic opponent in the race for County Commissioner. The poll workers were close enough to the electorate – they were part of the electorate – to know their county overwhelmingly favored the Democratic incumbent.


A quick hand recount of the optical-scan ballots showed that the Democrat had indeed won, even though the computerized ballot-scanning machine kept giving the race to the Republican. The poll workers brought the discrepancy to the attention of the County Clerk, who notified the voting machine company.


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THIS is what Bev Harris is fighting against ..... and THIS is why we are SO THANKFUL that she and the others involved have TIRELESSLY trotted down EVERY avenue to reveal the FACTS to the american people ...

Again: .... I cannot say it enough ....

Thank You Bev Harris and crew ........

[HungryLoser]

1. We all knew it!

Where the hell are we living? What the f**k are these people in Washington doing? Why is America so blind? We're supposed to be smarter than this.
Sheep to the slaughter.

[newyawker99]

2. Trajan

Per DU copyright rules
please post only 4
paragraphs from the
news source.


Thank you.


NYer99
DU Moderator

[JohnyCanuck]

3. What about when the author gives permission?

It's not unusual to see some material published on the net with a footnote that the author gives permission to reproduce his work for non-profit purposes.

Thom Hartmann is a nationally syndicated daily talk show host and the author of "Unequal Protection" and "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight," among other books. This article is copyright by Thom Hartmann, but permission is granted for reprint in print, email, blog or web media so long as this credit is attached and the title remains the same.

Does that mean that at DU we still have to follow the 4 paragraph rule?

[blm]

4. I think this should be allowed...

but, what category does DU fall in? Web media?