NO elected official in the U.S.--from Obama on down to dog-catcher in Podunk County--can prove that he or she was actually elected. NOT ONE!
During the 2002 to 2004 period, e-voing with NO AUDITS was spread like a plague throughout the U.S. And now we have a system that is not only run on 'TRADE SECRET' code, largely (75%) owned and controlled by ONE. PRIVATE. FAR RIGHTWING-CONNECTED. CORPORATION--ES&S, which bought out Diebold--but also half the states in the U.S. do NO AUDIT AT ALL and the other half do only a miserably inadequate 1% audit.
"It's all rigged" is a non sequitur, here. It was set up TO BE RIGGED. There is no other conclusion possible.
Venezuela, on the other hand, has "the best election system in the world," according to Jimmy Carter and he's spent his life, post-president, setting election systems up and monitoring them in hundreds of countries. He and all of the reputable election monitoring groups know all the details. They know the code is PUBLICLY owned "Open Source" code, available for review. They know how much of an audit is needed in an electronic system. Venezuela's audit is more than five times the size needed to detect fraud. You don't need a 100% audit. You can detect fraud with a 10% audit! Venezuela's doing way more than that.
So, demanding a 100% audit is more than likely a means of delay so that destabilization efforts can get going and kill more people and bring the Chavez-Maduro government down. And it's probably no accident that the U.S. government and Capriles are saying the same thing--after a quick consultation phone call with the CIA. It reminds me of the bullshit LIES about Mel Zelaya/Honduras that were orchestrated in Washington DC. It is classic "neo-liberal" era destabilization. Create a handy set of lies for the complicit Corporate Media to trumpet--"constitutional crisis," "100% audit," whatever--and drive that knife into the heart of the democracy that you want to overthrow.
So sick! And DOUBLY sick because OUR system is so-o-o-o-o-o riggable!
Prove it, President Obama! Prove that you were really elected. I think you were, actually--and by a bigger margin than we know--but you CANNOT prove it. WHY? Why do we have an unverifiable, corporate-run, 'TRADE SECRET' code election system run by the rightwing jerkwads at ES&S?
Why do HALF THE STATES IN THE U.S. DO NO AUDIT AT ALL?
WHY?
AND, what have they demanded that you agree to, to NOT be Diebolded? Hm?
Or maybe we should ask Chuck Hagel. (--the first beneficiary of his own company's vote rigging--ES&S!)
Gawd.
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