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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 23:51:36 -0500, T wrote:

This has the first few paragraphs from two articles and links to
where the full articles can be found.

Published on Monday, October 13, 2003 by the lndependent/UK
All the President's Votes?
A Quiet Revolution is Taking Place in US Politics. By the Time It's
Over, the Integrity of Elections Will be in the Unchallenged,
Unscrutinized Control of a Few Large - and Pro-Republican -
Corporations. Andrew Gumbel wonders if democracy in America can
survive

by Andrew Gumbel

Something very odd happened in the mid-term elections in Georgia last
November. On the eve of the vote, opinion polls showed Roy Barnes, the
incumbent Democratic governor, leading by between nine and 11 points.
In a somewhat closer, keenly watched Senate race, polls indicated that
Max Cleland, the popular Democrat up for re-election, was ahead by two
to five points against his Republican challenger, Saxby Chambliss.


Those figures were more or less what political experts would have
expected in state with a long tradition of electing Democrats to
statewide office. But then the results came in, and all of Georgia
appeared to have been turned upside down. Barnes lost the governorship
to the Republican, Sonny Perdue, 46 per cent to 51 per cent, a swing
of as much as 16 percentage points from the last opinion polls.
Cleland lost to Chambliss 46 per cent to 53, a last-minute swing of 9
to 12 points.

"Corporate America is very close to running this country. The only
thing that is stopping them from taking total control are the pesky
voters. That's why there's such a drive to control the vote. What
we're seeing is the corporatization of the last shred of democracy."
Roxanne Jekot computer programmer

the whole article is he
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1013-01.htm

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Fears of more US electoral chaos after flaws are discovered in ballot
computers
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
14 October 2003

Next year's US presidential election may be compromised by newvoting
machines that computer scientists believe are unreliable, poorly
programmed and prone to tampering.

An investigation published in today's Independent reveals tens of
thousands of touch screen voting machines may be less reliable than
the old punchcards, which famously stalled the presidential election
in Florida in 2000, leaving the whole election open to international
ridicule.

The machines are said to offer no independent verification of
individual voting choices, making recounts impossible, and the
software is shielded from public scrutiny by trade secrecy agreements.

the whole article is he
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=453116

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