I (and others) am blue in the face...

[HomerRamone]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/harvey-wasserman/63930/why-it-could-be-president-bush-and-vp-kasich

Do not “misunderestimate” the fact that 80% of the votes in 2016 will be cast on electronic machines, with access controlled on electronic registration rolls. With this comes a network of private, partisan, for-profit companies that favor the Bushes.

The GOP has both governors and secretaries of state in Florida, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Arizona. There are many others, but those five swing states could be more than enough...

Unless something is done about it between now and November 2016, there is no public recourse on any of the machines on which this election will be conducted. They are privately owned. The source code is proprietary. The boards of election have no access. There will be no meaningful recounts.

No matter how the public votes, wherever the governor and secretary of state are of the same party, the outcome can be altered with a few keystrokes in a few seconds. And unless things change, there will nothing to be done about it, especially in light of the billions the Koch Brothers and other GOP stalwarts are spending to buy the White House.

The voter rolls can be stripped and the vote count flipped with Republican spare change.

Yes, this is conspiracy theory. But anyone who doubts the conspiracy has not closely looked at the selections of 2000 and 2004.

The ones that brought us George W. Bush, who “kept us safe.”

[HassleCat]

1. It happened once and coud happen again

Was it in 2000, or 2004? Anyway, that was the year the polls were shockingly wrong. Except they weren't wrong. The media was all excited by the fact that exit polling failed to predict the winners in certain states. And it turned out those states were using Diebold electronic voting machines. The data tracked almost perfectly. Anyplace a Diebold machine was used, the results were at odds with the exit polling. And guess which way the results tipped? I'm not even going to insult your intelligence by giving you the answer. Of course, the Republicans divert attention away from the real problem of election theft by proposing we need special IDs to prevent illegal Mexicans from voting five times each.

[HomerRamone]

2. A measly 8 recs and 1 comment

after SEVEN hours and 334 reads...nobody will even discuss doing anything about this anymore

[dumbcat]

3. Destroy the Machines!!!!

Feel better?

[HomerRamone]

4. I did until your subcomment made me question your sincerity nt

[JanMichael]

6. i agree that comment seemed odd.nt

[smirkymonkey]

5. K&R

[F4lconF16]

7. So...what can we do?

Other than making this into a media issue, what can we do? Genuine question.

Hey, there's a thought--get John Oliver to do a piece on it.