In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Speaking of Voter Fraud, however ...
Maybe I shouldn't be so enamored of my "beloved" Shoup machine after all, according to
this report (Thanks to phunkster M:
"Unfortunately, the mechanism of a lever voting machine maintains no
independent record of each voter's ballot. Instead, the only record of
a vote is the count maintained on the mechanical register behind each
voting lever, where each register has a mechanism comparable to the
odometer in a car. Not only is this vulnerable to tampering by the
technicians who maintain the machine, but it means that the machine
has an immense number of moving parts that are subject to wear and
very difficult to completely test.
"Roy G. Saltman has noted that the number 99 shows up in the vote
totals on lever machines significantly more frequently than would be
expected if vote totals were randomly distributed -- that is, the
number of 99's is noticably different from the number of 98's or
100's. The probable explanation is that it takes more force to turn
the vote counting wheels in a lever machine from 99 to 100, and
therefore, if the counter is going to jam, it is more likely to jam at
99. The fact that this is a frequent occurance in vote totals reported
from lever machines is empirical evidence that the lever machines that
have been used in real elections are, in fact, inadequately maintained
and that this results in the loss of a significant number of votes.
Exhaustive pre-election testing would be expected to detect these
jams, but exhaustive testing of a mechanism as complex as a lever
voting machine is very time consuming, and performing such tests on
every voting machine prior to every election would be prohibitively
expensive."
OK, even though I doubt New York is going to Bush, the president isn't the only person being elected here. It does, however, beat having rotgut liquor poured down your gullet and being dragged through the streets by invidious political operators to vote again and again and again and finally left for dead in the gutter, like they did to poor Edgar Poe. Come to think of it, we haven't come very far at all.
So much for hopeful!
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