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youtube.com - 10/28/2008
Riz Khan - Manipulating US elections - 27 Oct 08 - Part 2 (video)
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The Riz Khan show looks at how electronic voting could be manipulated to flip the outcome of the 2008 US presidential election.

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The BRAD BLOG:  VIDEO: Yesterday Live on Al Jazeera English on Murder, Spies Voting Lies Other Electile Dysfunctions...

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Jonathan Kim: How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy

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VIDEO: Yesterday Live on Al Jazeera English on Murder, Spies Voting Lies Other Electile Dysfunctions...
The BRAD BLOG — I was live on the popular Riz Kahn program yesterday on Al Jazeera English, along with Clint Curtis (he in FL, myself in L.A.) to discuss the terrifying new documentary Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story and related concerns about electronic voting in our current general election. AJE, for those who don't know, is a very well respected, and widely viewed worldwide cable/satellite channel, run by former BBC folks like David Frost. Here's what aired live yesterday... ...

Jonathan Kim: How Electronic Voting Machines Could Steal Our Democracy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Did you know the hardware and software used in electronic voting machines (DREs) is considered proprietary and cannot be inspected by outside experts? That means that a small number of people could easily program DREs to flip votes, and the evidence of this crime would be safely locked inside the machines, with no way that anyone (except for the manufacturers) to know with 100% certainty that votes were accurately counted, or even if they were counted at all. And paper trails are only useful if they are actually counted. They often aren’t. As Josef Stalin (allegedly) said, "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the ...

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