Hey! Electoral Fraud & the new Technocracy!

[complain jane]

From Disinfopedia:

Electoral fraud is possibly the single most effective propaganda technique ever created. It simultaneously fools the majority of voters into thinking they are a minority, the minority to be empowered is emboldened by thinking they are a majority, moves the whole weight of the state, military, judiciary and bureaucracy behind the fraudulent pretender, and in general brings down the wrath of the public on those who contest the results beyond some minimal and mandated process.

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Thus, the ultimate propaganda technique may have met the ultimate pro-technology propaganda: the trusting of results simply because they come from code and not human ballot counters. One word for this is technocracy.

In July 2003, India, the largest democracy in the world, ran an all-electronic election, over the objections of opposition parties. Claims made by government-appointed experts that voting machines "could not be tampered with" are generally discarded by experts in every developed nation.

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[complain jane]

1. Hey! Here's some more!

The use of voting machine technology in India and the United States has been rife with accusations of new opportunities for electoral fraud. In 2000, there were a number of surprise Republican wins, which, in sum, barely gave the GOP the Senate in 2000 (until Jim Jeffords defected).

These races were all tallied in whole or in part by voting machines made by companies with close ties to the GOP and the religious right. One candidate, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, "left his job as head of an electronic voting machine company to run as a long-shot candidate for the U.S. Senate." The machines vended by ES&S and Diebold Election Systems recorded that he won "stunning" upset victories in both the Republican primary and the general election." It is impossible to validate or recount ballots, as ballots do not exist. Source code for the machines is not available for scrutiny to the general public.

[Eric J in MN]

3. The part on Chuck Hagel is misleading.

They used optical-scan paper ballots in Nebraska.

The problem was that when the Democrats wanted a recount, the courts said, TOUGH LUCK, there is no recount law in Nebraska.

Someone reading the passage without knowing the background would assume Hagel had led a paper-less electronic voting company.

[MHalblaub]

2. Unbelievable!

Once were Olympic games in America.
Assignment made for referee and the pairings in Boxing on computer.
What a big luck for the US boys...