"The gaming of US elections"
Topic: Technology

"Hey Tige," I said to Mr. Tiger, the flaw within, "we should go back to pen and pencil when it comes to voting - otherwise we are doomed."

'The election is over, the Dems got in,' said the pest. 'Get over it.'

"We need to demand that all electronic voting machines be thrown out. Even a machine with a receipt showing the so-called actual votes, can't be trusted to give an honest tally. We're doomed," I said once more, adding to that, "The 2006 congressional elections were hacked. The exit polling data and the reported election results don't add up."

'You're so neurotic,' grumbled Mr.Tiger.

"Think so? I don't," I replied before he could open his mouth again.

It wasn't hard to put on the brakes. I continued without losing a beat, "It is my belief the general public would abandon the flawed system if they knew the truth about how votes are stolen. Greg Palast, for one, has nailed it with this piece,' I said, telling Tiger, "He speculates that the on November 7, 2006, "four and a half million votes could have been shoplifted."

'And I could be Little Red Riding Hood,' said Tiger in between my remarks.

"In fact," I said, "the situation with the touch screen voting machines is critical and it will become worse if we stubbornly refuse to look at what's coming down the road. Look at this," I said as I pointed to a Princeton University study. "They demonstrate, with video, the ease at which this new voting technology can be compromised."

I ended by attaching to this entry a YouTube presentation of the all important demonstration produced by the computer scientists at Princeton. As I did, I begged, "Please watch this!"