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Please scream

No, it's not part of an interrogator's manual from one of our marvelous, detention camps at secret locales. It's yet another sign of blatant vote-fixing by the GOP apparatus in Ohio. Please consider it a must-read.

In brief: 5 propositions were on the ballot. Four of them were reforms to Ohio's electoral process, all opposed by the local right wing elements of the GOP.

A local paper with an exceptional track record for accurate polling going back to 1872, The Columbus Dispatch, pegged the vote on the first initiative, but on the other four there were significant differences -- wild, in fact for two of them.

If we spread the word and press on this, it could prove to be a case of their hubris in manipulating the easily-hacked, record-less, proprietarily-protected Diebold machines blowing this rigged game wide open before next year's important mid-term elections. Don't let them wave this off and pretend that the matter was somehow settled long ago. It hasn't been, and if something isn't done then not only will these machines still be in place without any safeguards, but more of them will be in use.

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Anonymous said…
Yeah, imagine being in the media and having to allow people to come in and promote these wonderful new machines on your station.

My boss at the cable station I work for works for the County Bored of Elections (Yes, deliberate spelling, thanks)so he set up a taping of a PSA showing people how to use the new machines.

When I pointed out nine things that could go wrong with the machines, he poo pooed me. Oh well.

Remember kiddies, bring a big freakin' magnet to the next election you vote in Ohio.

Feh.
10:13 AM
Doc Nebula said…
I'm really starting to think that everything does happen for a reason. Bush stole the last two elections so we can have a national lynching party in 2006 and end up with a Republican decoration hanging from every pine tree in America for Christmas.

Or so I fervently hope.
9:23 AM
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