Here’s a welcome sign that at least some in the corporate media are finally beginning to understand the complicated threat to democracy that is the boondoggle of electronic voting.
Bill Mego, in the Naperville Sun, asks all of the right questions (and granted, they are complicated ones to understand, unless one tries) about the junk Diebold voting system irresponsibly employed, at great tax-payer expense, by the DuPage County, IL Board of Elections.
One could as easily replace “Diebold” in the above sentence with any other voting system vendor, and “DuPage” with almost any other county in the nation (even though DuPage features one of the worst Election Boards in the country, and you’ll be hearing still more about them soon). But the “good news” for today: at least a few in the media — okay, at least Bill Mego — finally “get” it, and are beginning to serve their readership well.
Let’s get a few hundred more and we’ll be in business. (And I’d be out of it! Happily!)
I’m in shock,
WaPo adresses some problems on the front page
High Turnout, New Procedures May Mean an Election Day Mess
By Mary Pat Flaherty
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 18, 2008; A01
and a HuffPo blogger also:
Tom D’AntoniPosted September 18, 2008 | 02:14 PM
Can Obama’s Ground Game Beat GOP Vote-Robbing?
(I’m noticing more and more freeptrolls there)
Nunya –
Yeah, we’re seeing more coverage of the front-end suppression stuff. Which is good. But there’s still an almost complete dearth of info on the back-end, vote tabulation stuff.
Thus, Mego’s article (and included correct questions) was a breath of fresh air!
It’s actually the DuPage County Election Commission Brad. In every other county in IL the county clerk administers the elections. In DuPage a Democrat got the state assembly to set up the DCEC because the Republicans in the county said they had no money to run elections back in the early 1970s.
We need to get the word out to the non-bloggers, the uninformed millions – and we’re down to the wire. I made my own bumper stickers online mentioning “Uncounted”, and saying “POLLWATCH” – online, and am enjoying the commute to work now, knowing I may be tweaking the interest of hundreds of folks in checking out the movie and doing something now and on election day to reduce the inevitable fraud we’ll face. Desperate times call for desperate measures – plaster your cars with this stuff, as well as with the call letters of local progressive radio stations they might tune into and find enlightenment!
This was a really good article on a very serious topic. In most states this will be a very close election. In Illinois, in DuPage County there will be some close congressional races. The Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney should have been in there already. These guys in the election commission have already done some caging and think they are immune to prosecution. No one should be above the law.