We Pretend to Vote - They Pretend to Get Elected

 

Abbe Waldman DeLozier and Vickie Karp
19 Dec, 2008

 

So what really happened in the election process on November 4th?

 

As election integrity activists and co-editors on a book about electronic voting machine fraud ("HACKED! High Tech Election Theft in America"), we have been studying election fraud for the last five years. We wish we could say that the potential for stolen elections possible through the use of electronic voting equipment programmed with secret, proprietary software was lessening with time. But we can't.

 

Because of the gaping hole in mainstream media coverage of this issue, in 2006 we co-edited and co-authored parts of our book, "HACKED!" (http://www.hackedelections.com). We have poured over documents, university studies, witnessed hacks using real electronic voting machine software, spoken as guests on dozens of radio shows, and been directly involved with citizens' actions to this purpose: We are trying to alert the public to the little-known truth that in our opinion, we no longer have elections, we have what we call "selections". Because 85% of Americans cast their vote on November 4th into a black hole in cyberspace by using some type of paperless electronic voting machine, or computerized scanner which "counted" their paper ballot... and the real story is this: Whoever programmed the voting machine determined how the votes were cast.

 

During the dozens of hours we spent as guests on the radio across the nation and even in Canada, talking about this problem in the months leading up to the election, we always issued our challenge to election officials: Prove that even one, single solitary vote on one of these computerized voting systems actually counted a vote as the voter intended.

 

Nobody ever took us up on our challenge. Because they can't. It's all faith-based voting, and we are expected to trust everyone up and down the line, from our election officials, to the voting machine vendors, to the programmers, to the guys or ladies who deliver the machines, to the election workers in the polling place on Election Day. We refuse to accept this pathetic excuse for a fair voting system.

 

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