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In reply to the discussion: Wisconsin: None dare call it vote rigging [View all]Clouseau2
(60 posts)There was this wonderful short story, written decades ago, about how in the future, polling had gotten so accurate that the entire will of the population could be extrapolated from a single vote, so the election became a reality TV show about who was going to be the "citizen voter" that election. In the meanwhile, the entire country seemed unaware that in fact democracy had been replaced by tyranny and the election was a sham. Fast-forward to today, where more and more of our voting is done by electronic machines, the results tabulated and controlled by these machines sold by corporations with an agenda. Without PAPER ballots hand-counted by actual CITIZEN volunteers you cannot trust the results of ANY election. Other countries that care about the integrity of their elections do it this way. The 2000 election debacle did not spur us into creating more secure and accurate elections; it was just an excuse to throw billions to companies selling voting machines, manipulated by lobbyists and contracts given out to whatever company promised the cushiest jobs for the government election officials once they resigned their public sector jobs (the revolving door).