I don’t want to be viewed as a conspiracy theorist, I can’t afford to be called unpatriotic, and I definitely don’t want to be a nag. We are taught to trust that secrecy is just a necessary step in protecting the country, and I suppose I am meant to also accept that in order to get what you want in this country you have to lie, cheat, and steal.
Consider for a moment how much power the president of the United States of America actually wields. The selection of our president is not something to be taken lightly as it involves one of the most influential countries in the world. But can you imagine that two people get to duke it out in fair fight to see comes out on top? Honestly, who wouldn’t take brass knuckles to a fight with those stakes?
So take those campaign signs out of your yards, take those buttons off your shirts. This is just like every romantic comedy produced by Hollywood, the ending is chosen for you. In a eight part interview Stephen Spoonamore, the former CEO of Cybrinth, a data management company that helps protect electronic transactions in ATMs and electronic voting machines, explains in layman’s terms the process of rigging American elections. A process eerily similar to the efforts of dictators like Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. American leaders are just clever enough to keep it a close race.
A majority of the United State’s voting machines used in our elections are made by Diebold, the nations largest producer of ATMs. Premier Election Solutions, a subsidiary of Diebold, is ultimately responsible for coding the machines to make them tamper proof, however, they are not required to submit their work to third party inspections nor is there any Congressional oversight. Apparently Washington is not too worried about the security of our ballots being entrusted to a corporation.
If you want evidence of election fraud, best selling author and investigative journalist Greg Palast has it. Palast’s writing is often dismissed by the mainstream media perhaps because of his smugness, but the proof of election fraud in America is difficult to ignore. Full of facts and insight into the process, Palast was working for the BBC when he first exposed the corruption in Florida that caused the 2000 presidential race to become such a debacle. The information he provides illustrates how Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts worked together to defeat Democratic nominee John Kerry.
If you don’t believe Greg Palast’s exposure of fraud in the presidential elections, you may respond better to the documentary “Hacking Democracy.” The film follows Bev Harris, director of Black Box Voting, as she unmistakably proves that Diebold’s voting machines are not only hackable, but that the tampering can be untraceable. Harris was able to access the Premier Elections Solutions FTP server through a basic Google search and upload the coding software GEMS used in the voting machines encoded by the company. This film has also been ignored by the mainstream despite being produced by HBO and exposing the general ease in which our democracy can be taken from us.
If you are searching for a way to take action against this manipulation and secrecy visit Common Cause and email your representatives. Sending a few emails will only help make this an issue of greater precedence. You can also visit StealBackYourVote to read about the steps needed to secure our elections and ultimately our democracy.
Common Cause promotes:
Voter-Verified Paper Ballots. A major priority is passage of legislation at the federal and state levels is to protect citizens’ votes in the event of electronic voting machine malfunction or hacking. Such legislation would require all voting systems to use paper ballots or produce paper records that would be subject to random mandatory audits. The fact that voters would mark the ballots themselves, or at least verify physical paper records of their votes, would assure there could be a check on the electronic count. Additionally, if a recount were needed – there would be paper records or ballots that the voters have reviewed that can be recounted.
Fair and Effective Voter Database Management Protocols. A number of states have developed fair and effective voter database management protocols so that voters are not inadvertently purged from the rolls.
These ‘best practices’ should be adopted nationwide. (commoncause.org)
Velvet Revolution Interview with Stephen Spoonamore: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Greg Palast video on stealing elections
by: Scott Starrett
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