The article from the independent New York newspaper, Indypendent, discusses the issues of electronic voting from Nov 2000 in Florida to current problems in 2006.
"The 2000 presidential election, in which the wide-scale suppression of the votes of African- Americans in Florida is drowned out by images of hanging chads and butterfly ballots, is awarded to George W. Bush by a divided Supreme Court."
April 30, 2004
California Lawsuit Averted
California’s Secretary of State decertifies all touch-screen machines and recommends criminal prosecution of Diebold Election Systems following reports of irregularities in the March recall election. The California attorneygeneral decides against criminal prosecution.
More examples are shown in the Indypendent article
What does this say about our "Democratic" (it is in quotes, as we really are a representative democratic government) government, and it's representation of the people? What does that say about the American people, who already are at worldwide lows of voting turnout, only marginally above Mexico in our turn-out?
