03 November 2003


Touch-screen vote manipulation.…

Long article on the dangers of converting to touch-screen voting. A must-read if you care about democracy in America.
…Roxanne Jekot, who has put much of her professional and personal life on hold to work on the issue full time, puts it even more strongly. "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 corporatisation of the last shred of democracy.

"I feel that unless we stop it here and stop it now," she says, "my kids won't grow up to have a right to vote at all."
Complete story here.

Thanks to This Modern World for the link.


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