as stated by one of the other posts here. But these are big ones:
VOTER SUPPRESSION: this was very effective in deterring votes from Dems, esp in KS and TX, among a number of other states. It makes the 4 things he mentions even more acute as reasons why Dems don't vote. A poor person who has all kds of other problems to attend to, when faced with yet one more, a photo ID, just throws up his hands and gives up, and the same holds true for the other problems he sees with Dems as voters.
VOTING MACHINES: Of course, there's no proof that any particular voting machine has malfunctioned or been maliciously programmed or hacked or otherwise tampered with, but that's the point, isn't it? If it's almost impossible for others to catch you and if you're an ES&S maintenance man or whatnot and faced with the opportunity to throw an election, what are the chances you'll ever be caught? Or if you're one of the hard right owners or managers of either Diebold (whatever it's now called) or ES&S or any other voting machine company, are you likely to get caught if you program in some glitches that nobody will notice and that will be programmed to adjust on the 2nd or 3rd try.
Germany's high court for constitutional questions in 2009 outlawed all computers used to count votes, ruling that if the average voter cannot understand how his vote is verified, YOU CAN'T HAVE A DEMOCRACY. Democracy rests on the foundation of the trust of the voters in the truth of the elections. A simpler way of saying this is, When it's impossible to verify the vote or when the vote is never audited even tho it's possible to do so, there can be no democracy.
Here's the German court decision which received almost no press in the US for reasons that should be obvious:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Germany-bans-computerized-by-Paul-Lehto-090303-583.html
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