Most votes in the Pennsylvania primary are unverifiable

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Submitted by lucidity on Thu, 04/24/2008 - 10:15am.

On Monday might, The Brad Blog reminded us that most of the votes in the Pennsylvania primary would be unverifiable:

On Tuesday night, you will be told who the winner of the Pennsylvania primary is. You will accept it. You will have no choice. No matter who the winner really is. Or isn't.

This Tuesday's crucial contest will be primarily run on 100% faith-based, Direct Recording Electronic (DRE, usually touch-screen or push-button) e-voting machines across the state. There will be no way to determine after the election whether the computers have accurately recorded, or not, the intent of those voters who voted on them. As VerifiedVoting.org summarizes the crucial contest, it "will be essentially unrecountable, unverifiable, and unauditable."

Most of the votes, more than 85%, will be cast on such DRE systems which do not provide so-called "Voter Verified Paper Audit Trails" (VVPATs), as their use has been found unconstitutional in the state, since its been determined, accurately, that ballot secrecy cannot be guaranteed when using such paper trail systems. Not that it matters.

With or without a so-called "paper trail" printer, all touch-screen/push-button/DRE voting machines are equally unverifiable and antithetical to American democracy. Period.

A bold, but true statement, I make.

#714 On Sun, 04/27/2008 12:41am Larry Bergan said,

Wherever these new computerized voting machines are used, no matter which model, folly (A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome) ensues. For some reason, Americans have been convinced that we are incapable of counting our votes in a transparent way that makes the results match up. This is nonsense. Something else is happening, and I'll come right out and say it.

There is a conspiracy between the government and the voting machine companies which prevents US citizens from observing their votes being counted.

That is the truth! There is no simpler way to say it!

Why are they doing this. You might as well let your imagination run wild, because the powers that be are doing everything they can to keep this issue out of the media and the courts.

The BradBlog covers the story of all kinds of election (NOT VOTER) fraud better then anybody! It is a daunting task to tackle an issue that is made to be as technical and confusing as possible, on purpose, so that everybody will give up trying to do something about it. Brad Friedman and many other people, including Utah's most honest election official, Bruce Funk, have given much and received nothing but headaches for their efforts.

That makes them hero's in my book.

To see them and other hero's in this fight, buy a DVD called "Uncounted" and watch "Hacking Democracy", (an Emmy Award nominated film about election fraud), when it is rebroadcast this May 2nd thru the 31st. If you dare!

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