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 Pennsylvania’s ‘Faith-Based’ PrimaryPosted on Apr 21, 2008All eyes will be on Pennsylvania Tuesday, but citizen journalist Brad Friedman wonders if all votes will be counted, especially considering that the vast majority of Pennsylvanians will be casting electronic ballots. Election integrity is one of those issues that get a lot of lip service but no real action, which is probably why we’re still talking about it in 2008.
Brad Blog:
On Tuesday night, you will be told who the winner of the Pennsylvania Primary is. You will accept it. You will have no choice. No matter who the winner really is. Or isn’t. This Tuesday’s crucial contest will be primarily run on 100% faith-based, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen or push-button) e-voting machines across the state. There will be no way to determine after the election whether the computers have accurately recorded, or not, the intent of those voters who voted on them. As VerifiedVoting.org summarizes the crucial contest, it “will be essentially unrecountable, unverifiable, and unauditable.” Most of the votes, more than 85%, will be cast on such DRE systems which do not provide so-called “Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails” (VVPATs), as their use has been found unconstitutional in the state, since its been determined, accurately, that ballot secrecy cannot be guaranteed when using such paper trail systems. Not that it matters. Read more Previous item: Maliki Asks for a Pass Next item: Gore: Change Laws and Lightbulbs Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig. Add Your Comment |
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By Ed, April 22 at 7:16 am #
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Electronic voting machines without a paper trail is a good reason why I won’t trust the outcome of the election. I believe Diebold stole Ohio for Bush in November of 2004.
If elections can be stolen without valid documentation, there’s no way to legally oust corrupt politicians. Anyone want to lead an armed revolution?
Report thisBy Conservative Yankee, April 22 at 5:07 am #
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Yo mean yo think Hill-the-business-shill, anointed queen of Democrats has to stoop to stealing the Pennsylvania and Indiana elections to get “her rightful place” on the November ballot?
Guess we haven’t come that far from “those smoke filled rooms” after all!
The fix has been in from the Beginning.
Report thisBy lenny, April 21 at 4:29 pm #
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The democrats had a year of congressional dominance to fix this. If Obama looses they deserve to loose to Mc Bush, too.
Report thisBy cyrena, April 21 at 3:29 pm #
you got that right TDoff...I mean, that’s what they tell themselves..those Texas BigOil bidnessmen...if God didn’t think it was just fine for me to lie, cheat, steal and exploit the hell out of anybody else that can’t lie, cheat, steal and exploit better than me, than it wouldn’t be.
What’s actually WORSE though, is that the one’s being exploited, cheated, and lied to seem to believe it as well. This must just be the way God planned it, and if not...then we’ll just keep praying to make it all better, or so that God will teach THEM how to lie, cheat, steal and exploit too.
God it makes me sick…
Report thisBy TDoff, April 21 at 1:21 pm #
One great thing about living in a ‘christian’ nation, is that every thing’s OK. If electronic voting machines cheat one candidate or the other, that’s fine, ‘god’ must want it that way, ‘cause if ‘god’ didn’t want it, he could sure change it, couldn’t he?
That’s what Texas BigOil bidnessmen tell themselves all the time, ‘It must be OK for me to be filthy rich and screw all those people, ‘cause if ‘God’ didn’t like it, he could sure change it, couldn’t the?’
Report thisBy cyrena, April 21 at 12:22 pm #
I didn’t know this. Somehow, this seems to already give us the outcome.
I guess voting by mail is also not allowed in Pennsylvania.
Jeeze...all these years later...I don’t get it.
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