Hey Teabaggers! ES&S Set to Take Control of Virtually Every Election in the U.S.! Do You Care?

[BradBlog]

Your Once-Public Elections & Your Once-Public Elections on ES&S Monopoly Steroids
Dear Teabaggers: Here's something REAL you can actually worry about and/or take action on...

As we recently noted in some detail, Diebold's election division (now calling themselves Premier Election Solutions) has been purchased by their larger rival ES&S who, as we described at the time, has a well-established record for being tops in the election industry, both in size, and when it comes to thuggish, mafioso-like business tactics.

In the meantime, while the teabaggers have their panties in a collective wad about imaginary things they fear may someday happen to take away their rights, right now, immediately under their noses -- the same noses which failed to notice the stench of the unprecedented raping and looting of the federal government by their own Republican pals over the last eight years -- their right to a transparent, verifiable, citizen-overseen public election has also been stolen from them. Yet they're too busy watching Fox "News" and drawing pictures of Barack Obama as The Joker to notice.

With the ES&S takeover of Diebold/Premier, their nearest competitor, the privately-run election Goliath now has an un-overseeable lock on virtually every election in the United States of America.

Take a look at these two startling maps --- showing control of U.S. elections, before and after the takeover --- which Glenn Beck has yet to instruct his brain-dead zombies to give a damn about. And then take action to do something about it...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7413

[TxRider]

1. Good post

I can use that

[RC]

2. Tell me again why we have private business in charge of how we vote?

And most likely who we vote for?

Is not this suppose to be a government function?

[BradBlog]

8. Because public elections MUST be completely privatized. Because we're idiots to have let that happen

...and because with all the noise and running around w/ my hair on fire about it for years, nobody seems to give a damn in the Democratic Party.

:-(

Even here, we've got barely any recs, unfortunately.

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. If George Soros bought ES&S, they would suddenly become concerned.

Republicans do not care about crimes committed by Republicans.

[Vincardog]

4. What do you want to do about it?

[BradBlog]

7. See the full article, gives u easy link to file an Anti-Trust complaint with the DoJ

[librechik]

5. hell no--RW crooks control the machines. It's their only hope to win any elections

ever again.

[AntiFascist]

6. K&R...

this is very serious because it is basically about the engines of our democracy.

[jtrockville]

9. So what's the going price to purchase an election?

[BradBlog]

10. In this case, ES&S will get ALL Diebold elections for the mere price of...

...$5 million dollars.

Diebold originally purchased Global Election Systems for $31 million as I recall, back in 2001.

The price of buying millions of votes has vastly decreased.

[jtrockville]

11. Maybe the common folks could chip in and buy one for ourselves?