Reply #7: The "Help America Vote Act" was sold because it helped the blind [View All]

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One of the national associations for the blind was a huge backer, very high visibility, of HAVA.
The whole process was to help the handicapped in general. The intelligent and prescient criticism
of HAVA at the time was brushed aside - why won't you help the handicapped. It was, of course, not
sincere. A survey by an upstate NY county found that of over 200 voters with handicaps, something
like 80% preferred to do what they always did - vote absentee.

So from a false premise, we have an election system that can't be verified at all, one that we
can't look at as citizens, one that experts can't adequately evaluate for a number of reasons.

That's the significance of the post.

It's no conspiracy since that implies a process that's hidden. This is all out in the open.

For this individual to take this long to vote is both unacceptable and a key point about the
current state of e-voting - it never delivered on what it promised and it created a completely
privatized voting system.

If you think Clinton is going to skate in the general if she wins, escape the potential for
manipulation, I commend your faith in humanity, your optimism, and your trust of the
Republican party. I don't share that but it has nothing much to do with Clinton, rather a
long history of lousy elections since e-voting became dominant, almost all of which screwed
the Democrats.