Programmer Testifies About Rigging Elections With Vote Counting Machines

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7. Was this Waxman's committee, circa 2007? If so, I remember the coverage at the time.

Here's the real question for us: WHY was nothing done about this testimony after it was given? Not in 2007, when Democrats controlled both houses, and not in 2009, when they had even stronger majorities in both houses?

I don't even think writing and selling software that could throw an election was outlawed.

Even if it was a cloture issue, why not at least make headlines about how Republicans blocked election clean up? WHY?

For that matter, after whining about two allegedly stolen Presidential elections in a row, why wasn't a bill ready to pass as soon as Democrats saw the November 2008 election results? Isn't the vote really the ONLY voice the people have? The only real representation we get? What everything else in our alleged democratic system supposedly depends upon?

I don't care how many days people want to say we had a Democratic Senate caucus of 60 before Kennedy passed, the very first day we had 60, a Democratic Congress should have been ready to pass a clean elections bill--or, at the very least, least a bill saying any clean elections bill passed during that Congress would not need more than a 51 percent majority. Or SOMETHING. WHY did nothing like that happen?

Do we prefer whining about allegedly stolen elections to doing something about them? If so, WHY?

Do we prefer blaming Republicans allegedly stealing elections, liberals allegedly staying home and alleged failure of rank and file Dems to GOTV to actually doing something about a clean vote?

And if we do nothing, who the fuck cares if we whine?

ETA: I just stumbled upon this thread while searching DU for a post by Zorra about, of all things, Benie's hair:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026402768#post49