(Unfortunately, the nation who did so is Great Britain...)
Why is it that the Financial Times of London is reporting today on our nation's electoral meltdown this year ("Electronic voting switch threatens mass confusion"), while the national mainstream media in America couldn't seem to care less?
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"The last three election cycles in the US have been marked by controversy not only about candidates, but also about the fairness and accuracy of the voting process. And as voters head to the polls today for primaries in some jurisdictions, the coming cycle promises more of the same."
"With about 8,000 separate election authorities managing approximately 175,000 polling places and perhaps as many as 150,000 different ballot forms that include choices for everyone from senator to dogcatcher, American elections are complex even when all goes well. But this cycle sees many states and smaller jurisdictions making last-minute efforts to switch to electronic voting, and early signs of trouble are appearing."
The rest of the piece covers much of the territory -- the lawsuits, the ES&S failures, the Dieobld hacks, etc. from all over the country -- that we've been covering here over the last several weeks in regard to our approaching E-Voting "train wreck". You know, the one that we've written article after article about, complaining that the local media is reporting the stories as if they are solely local problems, while both they and the national media fail to connect the dots which clearly show that these problems are happening everywhere...and on a massive scale.
FT even bothers to mention the almost completely ignored (by the mainstream corporate media in this country) GAO Report on electronic voting which we first broke here, and then waited and waited as every national newspaper and wire service in the country completely ignored it.
For the rest:
URL:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002766.htm
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