Most Dangerous Monopoly

[Scuba]

ES&S quietly purchased Diebold last fall, giving them 80% of market for electronic voting machings. And it's not just the un-auditable vote-counting; they now also own polling place check-in software (electronic pollbooks), voter registration software and vote-by-mail authentication software.

http://www.benalexandra.com/cool_stuff/diebold_ess.htm

This link has very scary information, all with appropriate citations, regarding what could easily be a mass-manipulation of our elections.

[Greyhound]

1. K&R. Let's see if anyone cares to comment on this info.

Seems like putting elections in the secret black-box machines made an openly partisan company would interest some Democrats.

[Swamp Rat]

3. paging Scaife and Ahmanson...

[Greyhound]

5. I guess this is how we always end with the "choices" we're given.

:kick:

[BulletproofLandshark]

2. That link reminded me how precarious our democracy really is.

I'm thankful my locality still votes by paper ballot, but many aren't so lucky.

[Enthusiast]

4. Sickening.

Needless to say fair elections are the bedrock of a democracy.