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28 November 2004, 23:25

Don’t hold your breath. Since the 2000 elections, our elected democrats should have been beating every drum alerting and educating the public about the inherent, and very possibly deliberately built-in mechanisms in the computerized and optical voting machines that leave them wide open to fradulent manipulation of the final vote tally, the complete lack of transparency of these voting machines in not having a paper trail (how often have you not received a cash register receipt at a store due to a printing machine malfunction that could not be corrected?), and the corporate control of these voting machines by individuals with highly questionable ethics and political affiliations. They should have been fighting tooth and nail to keep these machines from being used without addressing their security loop-holes and lack of transparancy. But they haven’t yet, and you can bet the farm, they won’t. Voting irregularities in the 2004 elections have been, for the most part compiled by dedicated individuals and private groups. To claim that they could certainly use the political clout and financial assistance of the democratic party to enhance their credibility would be a gross understatement. Moreover, the many questions and incidences of voting irregularites demand a thorough investigation now so that transparancy can at least be more assured for future elctions regardless of the impact on the outcome of this one. And how many "investigations" by goverment controlled entities will we have to endure before we all recognize that they are nothing but scams. So are your elected democrats timid or complicit? you decide.