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74. Correction: unverifiable voting machines have elected flying monkeys ...

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 11:08 AM

Oct 2013

... not "we the people", at least here in Tennessee. Our state legislature is the only one to repeal a voter confidence law that would have banned unverifiable voting equipment. Using that equipment, flying monkeys now have a super majority in our state legislature and our Congressional delegation has gone from 5-4 Dem to 7-2 flying monkey.

My point: Don't blame the voters for the current state of affairs until and unless we can verify that our voting machines count our votes the way they are cast.

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Correction: unverifiable voting machines have elected flying monkeys ... Fly by night Oct 2013 #74

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