As Bush tries to do spin control on ever climbing levels of terrorism (more) and his stormtroopers wage campaigns to strike down America's human rights (more). It's become clear that torture and mayhem orders came right from the top (more), and with Bush ordering up a trillion dollars in murdergear (more), one really has to wonder how even the most uninformed fool could vote for this national suicide… and an “election” is coming up this fall.
I don't think many people around the world take seriously any more the idea that America is a democracy, and I think even inside America people are starting to wake up to that fact. As I'm sure you remember, to win the 2000 election for Bush, Florida “accidentally purged” about 50,000 voters from the voter lists, claiming they were felons and ineligible to vote — and as you know, it later turned out that they weren't actually felons, they were just Democrats. Oops, Florida did it again. Another 50,000 voters have just been scrubbed off the list (more). Many errors have already been found in it, but Glenda Hood (FL Secretary of State under Jeb Bush, the 44th Emperor President of the United States) defends it, saying “it's a lot more accurate than the last one!” (As if admitting that “you broke the law less this time than last time” makes it less of a crime).
Voting machines are a problem everywhere in the United States (more), but let's look at the latest tests of the Florida machines that they recently certified (more). Oops, Florida did it AGAIN! Turns out that they prooduce “inconsistent” log results (as a programmer, I don't even know how this is possible, barring tampering or genuinely extreme incompetence). A log file is pretty basic stuff. The fact that its log files don't even output correctly is terrifying… but, if you're going to fake an election, you don't want log files do you, and Diebold (one of the manufacturers) has promised to deliver Republican votes through the use of their machines (more).
What's interesting is that advocacy groups such as the League of Women Voters and National Federation of the Blind are actually campaigning against verifiable voting (more)! That is, they are demanding a form of electronic voting that does not log anything — meaning no recounts, no way to confirm that vote counts aren't just made up by the machine owner, and so on. Why would these groups do such a thing? Oh, maybe it's the million dollar donations they're getting from Diebold and other Republican companies that build these machines (more, more).
Is there anyone out there that can't be bought? Why do I always think of Krusty the Clown, who when asked why he would sold out, replied, “They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house… I'm not made of stone!”
The American public accepted all of this when it played out in 2000.
They'll accept it again in 2004, right?
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