July 09, 2003
How to steal an election
Two well researched articles (Article 1 Article 2) published in New Zealand paint a frightening picture of what we might be facing in 2004:
Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
Imagine for example if you could:
- secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote counting software;
- centralise vote counting systems, and politicise their supervision;
- legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems;
- establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the ground in the election – at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is happening at a micro-level;
- get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you also control – removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your shenanigans.
And imagine further that you;
- install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in.
Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night. On the basis of polling you could pick your marginal seats and thus keep your tweaking to a bare minimum.
Such a system would enable you to minimise the risks of discovery of your activities.
Remember: all the companies that manufacture voting machines in use in the US are controlled by Republicans. Further, these companies use proprietary "closed source" software which makes it difficult or impossible to determine how accurately the votes are tallied.
Posted by Norwood at July 9, 2003 05:11 AMYou really need footnotes for those claims. But I heard it on Geoff Brady's Free Speech Radio News 7-4-03, available on the internet today!, so it's verified by one source anyway.
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