Election Protection

TruthDig by Amy Goodman | Oct. 29, 2008 (Opinion)

“Sequoia is one of the big-four voting-machine companies. Of course, they have failed in state after state.” Friedman also reports on “vote flipping,” a problem with electronic, touch-screen voting machines. “It’s West Virginia, it’s Tennessee, it’s Texas, Missouri, Nevada ... people go in and vote for a Democratic straight-party ticket or for Barack Obama, and the vote flips to a Republican or some other candidate.” The companies claim ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Election Reform
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Oct 31, 2008 - 2:29 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 31, 2008

The article incorporates the research of others into voting problems. The warnings are clear; the action steps to prevent the problems have changed the problems, not cured them, and still are not clearly portrayed.

Thousands of lawyers and citizen-activists will be monitoring the polling places on Election Day. People are posting videos of election problems at videothevote.org. When ... More »

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