{"id":141430,"date":"2014-11-04T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=141430"},"modified":"2014-11-04T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:19:12","slug":"computerized-vote-rigging-still-unseen-threat-us-democracy-time-change-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/computerized-vote-rigging-still-unseen-threat-us-democracy-time-change-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Computerized Vote Rigging Is Still the Unseen Threat to US Democracy: It’s Time to Change the System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our article in Truthout last week, Top Ten Epic Reasons Why You Should Give a Sh*t About Voting<\/a>, elicited quite a few comments from readers voicing concern that ballots may not be correctly or honestly counted by our “black box” computer voting systems – and we would never know.<\/p>\n

The Internet is already roaring with stories of\u00a0visible<\/em> attacks on democracy so far in the 2014 elections: 40,000<\/a> mostly minority voters purged from Georgia’s voter roles and thousands more<\/a> in 26 other states, up to 600,000 Texas<\/a> voters disenfranchised due to new Voter ID laws, and the attempts to override the electoral college<\/a> in gerrymandered blue states like Michigan.<\/p>\n

We can fight this fraud\u00a0because we can see it<\/em>, like the part of the iceberg that is above the water. But yes, there is more below.<\/p>\n

Exactly two years ago Harper’s Magazine published a cover story “How to Rig an Election<\/a>,” (written by this author) detailing the hidden\u00a0threat to democracy posed by our electronic vote counting systems. Easily rigged and hacked, these computers are controlled by a handful of shady corporations, some with criminal records, who fight to keep their vote-counting software a “trade secret.”<\/p>\n

Computerized Voting Today Ensures That Americans Cannot Oversee or Verify Their Own Elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elections are held in a vast patchwork of electoral fiefdoms<\/a> where laws, procedures and private-vendor technology change from state to state; even from county to county. It’s difficult for one hand to know what the other is doing, particularly when legal public record requests on electronic voting systems are routinely denied.<\/p>\n

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Read more http:\/\/www.truth-out.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our article in Truthout last week, Top Ten Epic Reasons Why You Should Give a Sh*t About Voting, elicited quite a few comments from readers voicing concern that ballots may not be correctly or honestly counted by our “black box” computer voting systems – and we would never know. The Internet is already roaring with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17],"tags":[812,813,778,817],"class_list":{"0":"post-141430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-buzzflash","10":"tag-commentary","11":"tag-mark-keywords","12":"tag-new-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}