Already manipulating the vote???

[babylonsister]

"In voting news, the Pentagon has restricted access to the website overseas voters, both military and civilian, can use for registering to vote, citing attempts to hack it. The story was first reported by the International Herald Tribune. Is the Pentagon, with its billions of dollars, incapable of building a simple website that is difficult to break into? And is the answer to attempted break-ins to disenfranchise overseas voters, including the servicemen and women who are defending this country with their lives? Is this how we support the troops? By taking away their right to vote?

Microsoft and other companies are attacked all the time, and their reaction is to put up strong defenses. Surely the Pentagon is capable of doing what the computer industry does every day?

I recently talked to a knowledgeable source who has been in Iraq for a long time and his impression is that the reservists and national guardsmen there are quite unhappy, especially about having their tours of duty extended. It is not unthinkable this unhappiness might be expressed if they were allowed to vote."

www.electoral-vote.com

This sucks big time.

[Not Me]

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION for anyone unable to access FVAP site

Go to:
http://register.verifiedvoting.org/

From here, you can launch a US proxy to get to the FVAP site.

[NV1962]

2. Good luck

I already tried but few takers here, so far...

[babylonsister]

3. Why aren't people responding to this?

I don't understand; soldiers especially should be outraged!

[NV1962]

4. I think because "military vote" is (wrongly) equated with "vote for Bush"

Aside from efforts that make rigging / tampering (i.e., "Diebolding") possible after votes are cast, there is a systematic effort going on to suppress the vote of those likely to vote against the resident madman. And that's where the report on the shut down military and expatriate voter registration site falls into place.

However - there's a lot more going on. I just wrote up a longer thing including a recent example taken from "my" area - Reno.

It's all over the place, and I'm afraid that too many don't see the "big picture."

I think we need to set up a project to create an inventory of such reports. Once the results come in, presented side-by-side, the conlusion will be obvious.