BRAD BLOG BREAKING: NON-PARTISAN GAO REPORT CONFIRMS E-VOTING CONCERNS!

[BradBlog]

BREAKING: NON-PARTISAN GAO REPORT RAISES, CONFIRMS SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT SECURITY OF ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES!
Report Accompanied by BI-PARTISAN Press Release Issued by U.S. House Members!
Congressmen: 'A Wake Up Call', 'Foundation of Democracy Rests Upon Security, Integrity of our Voting System"

"oncerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."

That's just one of chilling revelations from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office's (GAO) 107-page report on the security of Election Voting Machines in America as just released moments ago. The report confirms many of the greatest concerns expressed by those who have called for Election Reform since the deeply flawed 2004 Presidential Election.

The GAO report (download complete report here ) was created in response to a request by several members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

A joint bi-partisan press release (3 Republicans, 3 Democrats) touting the findings of the report has just been issued by the U.S. House of Representatives...

FULL STORY, COMPLETE GAO REPORT, CONGRESSIONAL PRESS RELEASE:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001940.htm

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[stop the bleeding]

1. Finally! Maybe now we can start to safeguard our votes.

Its a start but we still have a long way to go.

Also nominated.

[CottonBear]

2. Wow! I hope that actual election reform will occur.

Thanks for posting this great news.

Paper ballots now!

[Skink]

3. If nothing else it's good timing

[papau]

9. It will not be in the Sunday Papers or talk shows - the MSM censorship

will kill this story so fast ......

Even a GAO report does not exist if published on page A19 on a Saturday.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

4. Noticed BradBlog beat MSNBC AND CNN with this which one

will be first out of those 2?

MSNBC OR CNN?

[helderheid]

5. I am so excited!!

[aquart]

6. Concerns does NOT mean they'll do a damn thing.

[porphyrian]

7. We've got until elections next year to do something.

At least the problem is being acknowledged now, albeit five years too late.

[Lexingtonian]

8. Could we please cut down on the all caps thread titles?

IT'S SO FUCKING ANNOYING FOR NEAR-TRIVIAL NEWS.

THANK YOU.

[meganmonkey]

10. Near trivial news???

:rofl:

Who is counting YOUR votes?

[mattclearing]

11. I agree with your subject line, but the near-trivial thing is unbelievable

E-voting may be the reason why we got Bush for four more years. Nothing trivial about it.

[Lexingtonian]

20. e-voting sucks

no doubt about that. But it's a superficial problem largely created by an attitude of disrespect for and disinterest in the average citizen. A puritanism about voting process is itself a superficial matter, does nothing about that central problem.

I've looked at it long and hard myself. The structural root of the present corruption and abusable complexity in American elections is, in my assessment, the set of ex-felon/probationer/parolee disenfranchisement laws. I see zero interest in dealing with that in all these threads. It's hard political work and it's not about enhancing the power and importance of nice middle class people. Whereas geeking out about the minutiae of poorly designed hardware and software, loudly protesting a company that aggressively sells this crap to slothful and callous county boards, and running statistical analyses based in wrong ideas of conditional probability- that is proposed to be Progess and Integrity.

As for the evidence that e-voting handed Bush one or both elections, I sympathize with the desires involved but it's not demonstrable, nor does it have real point. The voter views in the months before and months after both elections are clear and there is no mandate for either Democrat in evidence.

In fact, much as I abhor the suffering and death and impoverishment and psychological reality it caused, I am sadly sure that the Right running the country and proving their incompetence, obsolescence, and stupidity in practice was the only way of getting most of the crap in the Cold War-defined political system and in American voters' heads exposed to and hammered/eroded away by post-Cold War reality. This country was running insane in 2000- I think never in the country's history was it so materially well off and yet as psychologically imbalanced, short of the runup to the Civil War. All of the pent up unresolved idiocy of two generations wanted out out out. Go look at what Bush campaign rallies in 2000 were like in the newspaper reports- conventions and carnivals for unabashedly happy and utterly arrogant lunatics. The man ran at 60% support for most of the year.

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[mod mom]

12. Thanks Brad! recommended!

[bleever]

13. Another good step forward. Don't forget: this story was supposed to

be dead in the water the day after * "won" the popular vote.

A bipartisan finding from the GAO for the House Judiciary Committee is not trivial. It's not the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but it's another advance.

Thanks, Brad.

[Festivito]

14. How about a case of false advertising?

· In Pennsylvania, a county made a ballot error on an electronic voting system that resulted in the county's undervote percentage reaching 80% in some precincts.
· In North Carolina, electronic voting machines continued to accept votes after their memories were full, causing over 4,000 votes to be lost.

Now that cannot be under the error rate they claimed!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Brad, I don't know how many times now the GAO has confirmed our

beliefs of problems ie Halliburton, the Fed's blame for Katrina inaction, etc..and they can't do a darn thing. The Congress is Republican ruled as is the Atty Generals office.

[hiley]

16. Thank you Brad

for your continuing fight for Every Vote To COUNT!
:applause:

[EFerrari]

17. We're on a roll! Thank you, Brad!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[Coexist]

18. thanks, Brad -

you are tireless!

[Kurovski]

19. I'm going to take this as good news.

It happier than I've been in months on this subject.

I've sent out letters on the subject and I know other people have.

We are being listened to.

[derby378]

21. Until REAL reform takes place, we must boycott all e-voting machines

And we have to take this seriously. Here in Dallas, all early voting is done on ESS e-voting machines. That means we may have to boycott early voting until we get some machines that we deserve.

[AntiFascist]

22. Whoops, Diebold headed back down....

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=DBD&t=5d&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

[DemocracyInaction]

24. Now here's one of them thar' crystal clear examples of

"why the hell don't the Dems--the whole goddamn lot of them on the Hill--swarm the reporters/cameras waving this report and screaming??". Really--why not?? I mean this basically then confirms that one need not go out and vote because this isn't a democracy anyhow and confirms that these pigs are illegally in offce, etc. and we have a couple reps "concerned" and that's all!! Bottom line: there's nothing stopping the Dems on the Hill of MAKING THIS A #1 story to go along with all the others coming down the pike. Put the goddamn stake in their hearts while we have them down on the floor. I just give up........

[BeFree]

26. Are you one of them?

'Them' being the type that I read all the complaints about? That "We should just give up"?

I've been reading people complaining that some here have been saying that, and that it is a demoralizing statement. I would agree with them, "We should all give up" posts are worthless. But I don't think you are suggesting that we give up, it's just that some could take it that way. Know what I mean?

[senseandsensibility]

25. okay, could our elected Dem leaders start screaming about this

NOW? I don't care if the corporate whores don't want to hear it. They can interject it into live interviews. Start thinking outside the box. This is the most important issue we've got going right now.

[Independent_Liberal]

27. Kick!

[reprehensor]

28. bump

[KoKo]

29. So...this seems like "old & dead news" but it's STILL IMPORTANT!

After Fitzgerald we go back and dig deeper. Maybe a voice for our Eleciton Reform Efforts suddenly takes the forefront...because..this Oldie DU'er has always believed "someone, somewhere in Florida" is ONE DAY going to come forward and SHOW HOW "Election 2000 was STOLEN!"

AND...when that happens we can finally go and IMPEACH SCALIA AND THOMAS for their PUT UP CRAP VOTES that allowed THE HELL WE'VE LIVED WITH UNDER "Failed Bush II" all these years.

In my gut...I know there's a "Whistle Blower" in Florida. I know that it's going to come out how they gave Bush II the ELECTION ...while they hid in a van, truck, someone's home...or a warehouse ...the REAL TALLY OF FLORIDA 2000 VOTES.

It WILL COME OUT....I know folks think I'm crazy for saying this ...but SOMEONE KNOWS ABOUT "Selection 2000" THEY KNOW...and they will be heard.

:shrug: