If a piece by Greg Palast on Information Clearing House is correct the mid-term US election result has, in part at least, already been pre-ordained:
"And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections. We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps".
Read the full piece here - which even half-correct is worrying. And hardly a demonstration of the "democracy" in action the US seeks to export to the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, as the election is presently underway, it is reported on the ABC News this morning that voting machines have been misfunctioning. And guess where? In key Democratic States where there are black and minority-group voters.
"And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections. We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps".
Read the full piece here - which even half-correct is worrying. And hardly a demonstration of the "democracy" in action the US seeks to export to the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, as the election is presently underway, it is reported on the ABC News this morning that voting machines have been misfunctioning. And guess where? In key Democratic States where there are black and minority-group voters.
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