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•8 reviews since Oct 21, 2006
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Opal-Tallulah discovered 23 months ago- " In the 2004 election, for example, more than three million ballots were never counted."
- twocrows rated 22 months ago
- just in time for election day! "Recipe for a Cooked Election October 19th, 2006 in Articles by Greg Palast for Yes! Magazine A nasty little secret of American democracy is that, in every national election, ballots cast are simply thrown in the garbage. Most are called %u201Cspoiled,%u201D supposedly unreadable, damaged, invalid. They just don%u2019t get counted. This %u201Cspoilage%u201DProportion of Ballots That were not Counted has occurred for decades, but it reached unprecedented heights in the last two presidential elections. In the 2004 election, for example, more than three million ballots were never counted. Almost as deep a secret is that people are doing something about it. In New Mexico, citizen activists, disgusted by systematic vote disappearance, demanded change %u2014 and got it. In Ohio, during the 2004 Presidential election, 153,237 ballots were simply thrown away %u2014 more than the Bush %u201Cvictory%u201D margin. In New Mexico the uncounted vote was five times the Bush alleged victory margin of 5,988. In Iowa, Bush%u2019s triumph of 13,498 wasPercentage of African American Voters overwhelmed by 36,811 votes rejected. The official number is bad enough %u2014 1,855,827 ballots cast not counted, according to the federal government%u2019s Elections Assistance Commission. But the feds are missing data from several cities and entire states too embarrassed to report the votes they failed to count. Correcting for that under-reporting, the number of ballots cast but never counted goes to 3,600,380. Why doesn%u2019t your government tell you this? Hey, they do. It%u2019s right there in black and white in a U.S. Census Bureau announcement released seven months after the election %u2014 in a footnote. The Census tabulation of voters voting in the 2004 presidential race %u201Cdiffers,%u201D it reads, from ballots tallied by the Clerk of the House of Representatives by 3.4 million votes."
- Don-Keehotay rated 22 months ago
- From the page: "In the lead-up to the 2004 race, millions of Americans were, not unreasonably, panicked about computer voting machines. Images abounded of an evil hacker-genius in Dick Cheney's bunker rewriting code and zapping the totals. But that's not how it went down. The computer scare was the McGuffin, the fake detail used by magicians to keep your eye off their hands. The principal means of the election heist - voiding ballots - went unexposed, unreported and most importantly, uncorrected and ready to roll out on a grander scale next time."
- bellagrrl2 rated 23 months ago
- From the page: "solid statistical analysis discovered that if you're Hispanic, the chance your vote will not record on the machine was 500% higher than if you are white."
- Diocletian9 rated 23 months ago
- From the page: "Joe Stalin, the story goes, said, %u201CIt%u2019s not the people who vote that count; it%u2019s the people who count the votes.%u201D That may have been true in the old Soviet Union, but in the USA, the game is much, much subtler: He who makes sure votes don%u2019t get counted decides our winners."
- Anitra rated 23 months ago
- Greg Palast describes terrible problems in getting all votes counted, but he also describes hope::
- Voter Action, a group of motivated citizens, some jumping into activism for the first time, sued the state of New Mexico in 2005 over the bad machines and the failure to count the vote. The activists ran a public campaign with their revelations about New Mexico's broken democracy. Last year, Voter Action invited our investigations team to lay out our findings to huge citizens' meetings in Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Soon, the whole horrid vote-losing game was on local community radio and TV stations. It worked.
Governor Richardson, who ducked the issue for three years, and his Secretary of State, once openly hostile to reform, had to relent in the face of the public uprising. In February of 2006, Richardson signed a model law requiring that all voting in the state take place on new paper ballot machines, with verifiable tabulating systems. Richardson now claims the mantle of leader of the voting reform campaign.
Voter Action, successful in New Mexico, is now pursuing lawsuits in seven states to stop the Secretaries of State from purchasing electronic voting systems which have records of inaccuracy, security risks, and have been proven unreliable. - Greg Palast describes terrible problems in getting all votes counted, but he also describes hope::
- justafrog rated 23 months ago
greg palast is a writer with a keen sense of journalism and nascent composition, unlike those public relations departments mascarading as new reporting agencies. ribald humor, incisive wit, and a sometimes too healthy dose of truth. if you want to deny the truth of our "democracy"... if you want to believe this is not a fascist dictatorship... stay away from this site.
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