Here in Ohio mean-Jean and 'I love Foley' Pryce won in Nov . Barbara Sykes-D for Auditor of State lost..49/51. Does that number ring a bell ? Our court still has only one D on it I believe, our congress is still majority R's. I'de love to know who REALLY got elected last Nov. It's not just Florida.

Unfriggingbelievble!

Welcome to BushWorld, in which private corporations (with close ties to far rightwing causes) tell you what they will and will not disclose about how they counted your votes.

This WAS the fascist coup. October 2002. The "Help America Vote Act," by which both Democratic (most of them!) and Republican office holders sold away our right to vote. Same month as the Iraq War Resolution, and closely related to it. The latter insured unjust war. The former insured that we would never be able to stop it.

As the Iraq invasion approached, several months later, 56% of the American people opposed the war. It was to defeat that peace-minded, justice-minded American majority that HAVA was slipped "under the radar" at the same time as the war resolution. The War Party knew that, as the heinous, deceitful nature of this war became known, that already significant majority (56% would be landslide in a presidential election--and believe me, it was) would only grow. Today it's 70%! And "trade secret" vote counting is still at work, preventing us from stopping the war by fiddling the elections, so that half the Democrats in Congress are pro-war.

And we, as a society--in the courts, in Congress, in some political circles, in blogs, and in some tiny bits of the corporate media--are debating the issue of whether "trade secret" vote counting is okay; whether a rightwing-connected corporation has the "right" to keep its vote counting code a secret from the rest of us.

It is corporatism gone mad that this is even an issue!

It is so blatantly, egregiously wrong that you have to wonder if our system of government is even salvageable, given the betrayal of our democracy by our entire political leadership in letting this happen--SECRET corporate control of election results!

Does this mean that DAs and police detectives will now be required to sign non-disclosure contracts before judges will provide search warrants in other criminal investigations?

If the GAO and ESS sign a confidentiality agreement and the GAO finds that the ESS software had a hack that threw votes to Buchanan, then does that contract prevent the GAO from prosecuting or publicizing the problem or the crime?

From: Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
Will votes be counted correctly?

Red team, blue team. Does it matter if our votes don't count?

In Florida, researchers just proved optical scan voting machines can be hacked by someone with only brief access to the machine. In California, researchers hacked through security of all models of California's voting machines to change results or take control of electronic functions.

These studies were conducted at the request of Florida's Secretary of State Kurt Browning and California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen.

Sarasota's 18,000 lost votes are still in dispute. And now, in Miami, a gutsy new novel reports a silent coup marching across the country in fictitious voting machines. "A Margin of Error: Ballots of Straw" asks, "How will we know it's right?"

And so do I.

Hello, Brad/ All~! JUST POSTED RELEVANT VIDEO:
"Kathy Dent Denies Ties (to ES&S)/ REVISED w/ New Lies":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFEgYIHsM8w

In this stunning example of chutzpah, Kathy Dent claims there is "no evidence" of her blatant, shameless ties to Election Systems and Software.
NO EVIDENCE?...Well, here's some.

(Editor's note: It's getting hard to keep up with Mrs. Dent's misinformation. This one lie of hers took me two days to compile all the evidence disputing--so, ONE LIE DOWN...many more to come, coffee pending.)

Thanks for keeping me upped on the GAO info, Brad~! (Not at all surprising to hear.)
Keep it up! I think we may be winning this thing~!