We here at MediaWhoresUSA have never linked to a BlackBoxVoting.org article (founder Bev Harris does leave herself vulnerable to charges of seeking publicity spotlight), even though we completely agree with BBV that America's current voting process is a PATHETIC, INEXCUSABLE NIGHTMARE that demands millions of dollars worth of investigations. (Investigations that Harris and BBV have been doing on a shoestring budget.)
But in this case, Harris and BBV point out the LINKS between President Bush's Defense Secretary nominee, Robert Gates, and the HAVA voting act that, in reality, has been a license for Republican-owned companies to force their disgraceful, UNVERIFIABLE vote-counting machines down America's throat, in return for multi-million dollar government contracts.
WE here at C-dems FULLY SUPPORT Oregon Senator Ron Wyden's call for NATIONWIDE MAIL-IN VOTING as performed over the past several years in Oregon.
Click here for an audio (MP3) download of Senator Wyden explaining MAIL IN VOTING in his call-in to the Big Ed Schultz radio show, Sen. Wyden explaining that mail-in voting PREVENTS vote fraud, gives ALL voters PLENTY of time to register to vote; and DISPENSES with the need for tens-of-millions of dollars worth of atrocious computerized voting machines, including the especially appalling TOUCH-SCREEN machines WITH NO PAPER TRAIL or audit capability!
http://audio.wegoted.com/podcasting/110906WydenRon.mp3
ALREADY in these 3 days since election Tuesday (Nov. 7/2006), we have TWO races in Florida, alone, where TOUCH SCREEN VOTING MACHINES have delivered improbable results. In Florida House District 13, Katherine Harris' old seat, UNDERVOTES completely out of character with undervotes in neighboring districts, have given a slime 300-vote electoral 'win' to the Republican candidate, despite hundreds of "undervotes." "Undervotes" have also been a problem in Miami-Dade county vote totals.
In addition, we have President Bush LYING about his pre-election pledge to "Keep Donald Rumsfeld on for the next 2 years", and not only does the "Mainstream media" tend to FORGET about that pledge, but they REFUSE to air the videos of President Bush lying bold-faced on such a simple pledge!
Democrats and the Media have a RESPONSIBILITY and OBLIGATION to INVESTIGATE Computerized Voting problems, including the FUNDING of HAVA, the links between Robert Gates and America's dismal computerized voting process, and the ongoing problems in this election.
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<< Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld will resign, reportedly to be replaced by former CIA director Robert Gates. Did you know that Robert Gates was involved in the voting machine industry?
Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids. >>
http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/45174.html
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