Electronic Voting Machines... Not A Safe Way To Vote

Since the 1970's and I was old enough to vote, I've always wondered WHY a man that was running for President of the United States, that the "Polls" were showing him as trailing behind in votes, could "out of the blue" end-up being the new President of the United States, after all was said and done. I have always thought it seemed strange, almost impossible for something like that to even happen, something just wasn't right,................... and now I see why and how it could happen.


THE PREMISE


Votescam asserts the unthinkable.

It is a strange and frightening true detective story. It contains fact, film, documents and visions seldom seen by the public. It is a troubling look at the corruption of the American vote that most Americans cannot bear to believe is even partly true.

The authors assert, and back it up with daring reporting, that your vote and mine may now be a meaningless bit of energy directed by preprogrammed computers � which can be fixed to select certain pre-ordained candidates and leave no footprints or paper trail.

In short, computers are covertly stealing your vote.

� For almost three decades the American vote has been subject to government-sponsored electronic theft.




www.constitution.org...




ELECTRONIC HOODWINK

"We can now speak the most majestic words a democracy can offer:
'The people have spoken'..."

First words spoken by
President-elect, George Bush,
November 8, 1988 victory speech
in Houston, Texas, 11:30 PM EST

"Once, during the time when days were darker, I made a promise. Thanks, New Hampshire!"

Same speech, final words.

It was not "the People" of the United States of America who did "the speaking" on that election day, although most of them believed it was, and still believe so.

In fact, the People did not speak at all, and George Bush may have known it or, at least, strongly suspected it.

The voices most of us really heard that day were the voices of computers � strong, loud, authoritative, unquestioned in their electronic finality. The computers counted more than 55 million American votes in 1988 � more than enough to swing election after election across the nation. In that election, a difference of just 535,000 or so votes would have put Dukakis into the White House.

The computers that spoke in November 1988 held in their inner .workings small boxes that contained secret codes that only the sellers of the computers could read. The programs, or "source codes," were regarded as "trade secrets," The sellers of the vote-counting software zealously guarded their programs from the public, from election officials, from everyone � on the dubious grounds that competitors could steal their ideas if the source codes were open to inspection.

You may ask: What "ideas" does it require to count something as simple as ballots?

Can the "ideas" be much more complex than, let's say, a supermarket computerized cash register or an automatic bank teller machine?

The computer voting machines do not have to do anything complicated at all; they simply must be able to register votes for the correct candidate or party or proposal, tabulate them, count them up, and deliver arithmetically correct additions. People with no formal training, even children, used to do it all the time.

So why can't the public know what those secret source codes instruct the computers to do? It only makes common sense that every gear, every mechanism, every nook and cranny of every part of the voting process ought to be in the sunlight, wide open to public view.

How else can the public be reasonably assured that they are participating in an unrigged election where their vote actually means something?


www.constitution.org...

[edit on 13-10-2004 by nanna_of_6]

[edit on 13-10-2004 by nanna_of_6]