08-10-2011, 06:17 PM
$tevie wrote:
This is such nonsense if you think about it. So much effort to try to avoid acting like adults. This Congress really IS the worst.
I agree with Sen. Snowe's quote.
As long as we allow super concentrations of money, much of it unidentified, we're going to get "representation" that doesn't reflect what's best for the nation as a whole.
I'm sure y'all are tired of hearing me say it; however, we have to reclaim ownership of the election process, i.e., voting machines, campaign propaganda, etc., before it will get better.
There is a case winding its way through the courts concerning the hacking of the 2004 Presidential vote in Ohio. Y'all may remember this was the stark anomaly of a 6.7% shift from exit poll compared to actual results (the mention of Kerry reminded me of this).
I won't hijack this thread any further; just chew on this tidbit regarding the "middle man" hacking process:
"...the servers for the computation of the Ohio vote count were in the same basement in Chattanooga, Tennessee that houses servers for the Republican National Committee. The programmers who did the stuff for Ken Blackwell, the Republican Secretary of State, who was also co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign, were Republicans who did websites for the Bush administration."
This is a paraphrase quote of several facts. I can provide multiple sources for anyone who might be interested. Google will yield a boatload.
No one has yet been prosecuted. A Republican IT operative who came forward died in a plane crash just before his second deposition.