Ahhh electronic voting, my nemesis

Here is a list of information about electronic voting in the U.S. and who is involved. If you don't want to submit yourself to the full text, I've posted some of the more salient points below:

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.

5. 35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

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9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.

17. 30% of all US votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.

18. Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen systems with no paper trail.

and the coupe de grace:

19. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.

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