HOW TO RIG AN ELECTION
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"How to Rig An Election" is the cover story of Harper's Magazine November, 2012 issue: http://media.allthatstreaming.com./pdf/how-to-rig-an-election-by-victoria-collier.pdf
Harper's November issue--not online yet, but delivered to our house this week-- has an absolutely thrilling, definitive article, by Victoria Collier, on electronic vote-rigging: "How to Rig An Election". It's the lead article featured on the cover. I devoured it, and can happily say: the news is OUT that we've been trying to tell denial-ridden skeptics for YEARS!
I know other articles have appeared elsewhere, including in the NY Times and Rolling Stone. But Collier's is the first I've seen that covers the breadth and depth of the problem as we activists know it: that private, computerized vote-counting since HAVA is completely inauditable, and has made election-rigging laughably easy for anyone with the access. And that four GOP-friendly voting companies--with more felons involved on their employment rolls than can VOTE in many states!--have the access. And that our inexplicably, treacherously clueless political parties and elected officials have navel-gazed while it happened. They look up only during campaigns, coming to voters to demand money and votes, then betraying us utterly by letting it all go to waste when an election--many elections!--are stolen with impunity.
America is gaining clarity on this. We will not be self-governing again until WE count the votes. Our anonymous ballots must be cast in private - but they must be COUNTED IN PUBLIC. That means--sorry--not inside a computer. But I DO have a technology-friendly election idea:VIDEO CAMS to track ballot custody while in the hands of elections officials! Including absentee ballots! CAMS to follow those precious ballot batches wherever they go, and CAMS on the people who will, once again, count them. Streamed to the web and local cable access, til the count in's done!
Bravo Victoria Collier, and check out her article, everyone.: http://media.allthatstreaming.com./pdf/how-to-rig-an-election-by-victoria-collier.pdf
Praise for "How to Rig an Election":
Those of us who've faced the ugly truth about America's voting system, yet still believe it possible to wrest that system from the clutches of the right (despite the criminal inattention of the Democratic Party, and most progressives), suddenly have something we can cheer about at last, and send out far and wide ASAP: "How To Rig an Election," Victoria Collier's excellent cover story in the November Harper's.
If you've not been paying attention to the radical subversion of electoral democracy in the United States these last 12 years, this piece will blow your mind, and probably depress you; but if you don't shake that off, and move to spread the word right now, by sending everyone you know this must-read article, you'll have to share the blame for what will very likely happen (again) on Nov. 6, whether it befalls the presidency, Congress or some statehouses (or all of the above).
Brava to Victoria, then; and hurray for Harper's, whose editors and publisher have shown us once again that they are brave enough to face an issue as important as it is neglected. (This new piece is a sort of sequel to "None Dare Call It Stolen," the cover story I wrote for them six years ago.) The only other US magazine that's shown the same intelligence and courage is Rolling Stone. ~ Mark Crispin Miller, Author of "Fooled Again" and "Loser Take All"
"Harper's November issue--not online yet, but delivered to our house this week-- has an absolutely thrilling, definitive article by Victoria Collier on electronic vote-rigging: "How to Rig An Election." It's the lead article featured on the cover. I devoured it, and can happily say: the news is OUT that we've been trying to tell denial-ridden skeptics for YEARS! I know other articles have appeared elsewhere, including in the NY Times and Rolling Stone. But Collier's is the first I've seen that covers the breadth and depth of the problem as we activists know it . . .
America is gaining clarity on this. We will not be self-governing again until WE count the votes. Our anonymous ballots must be cast in private - but they must be COUNTED IN PUBLIC. That means--sorry--not inside a computer. But I DO have a technology-friendly elections idea: VIDEO CAMS to track ballot custody, including of absentee ballots, while in the hands of elections officials! CAMS to follow those precious ballot batches wherever they go, and CAMS on the people who will count them by hand, the only way to end this digital-darkness shell game.
Be my guest if you want a computer count as a check-and-balance. But the observed public hand-count of ballots whose chain of custody is continually, publicly observed, is the result of record. Streamed to the web and local cable access, til the countin's done! Brava Victoria Collier, and check out her article, everyone. ~Mimi Kennedy