Wednesday, November 5, 2008

So you think you're getting a vote?!

Good morning America! Today you are voting for your next President. What an awesome responsibility you have, not just to your country but to the world. What a privilege it is to exercise your democratic right to choose your next leader.

Why on earth would you then use electronic voting machines? We all know that numbers can be manipulated once the data is inputted digitally. It's madness because of its lack of accountability. Here in Australia, we do things the old fashioned way. Each voter gets one sheet of paper. We put a "1" in the box of the candidate we select and we put the single sheet of paper into a sealed box. When the boxes are opened for counting, scrutineers supervise the entire process of counting the ballots using flesh & blood people. The numbers are tabulated, then checked by repeated rounds of counting. These numbers are sent off to the central tabulating centres and so forth. In the case of a dispute, the paper ballots get recounted, one by one, under scrutiny. It's not perfect, but it's go to be safer than voting machines!

Sorry America, you can have no confidence in your vote. A computer programmer named Clint Curtis has testified under oath to congress how easy it is to rig a voting machine to flip the vote which ever way you want it to go. The program can then eat itself to then destroy the evidence! Curtis claims he was approached by Speaker of the House of Florida, Tom Feeney, to write such a program to rig the result in Florida. This could have assisted G W Bush's election to office in 2000.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ky-YXvxYbck
10 mins of astounding video

The person chosen to live in the White House is the person the elite at the top have chosen, not the person the "people" have chosen. The top of the pyramid goes way above the US Presidency, but that's the subject of another post.

If nothing else the US election is a spectacle. It makes for good entertainment. Enjoy.