Recent polls find Barack Obama running away with this election, but polls are frequently wrong. Remember Dewey v Truman? Questionable polls, and even more questionable voter registrations pale in comparison to a problem that may not even be addressed by election day: Electronic voting machines.
You don’t hear much about it in the mainstream media, save for the great Lou Dobbs, but the very real possibility exists that your vote may not even be counted come election day. Diebold, who has since changed their name to Premier Election Solutions have admitted that their machines, which will be used in many polling places in November, are faulty, and could potentially drop tens of thousands of votes. Not a peep from either candidate regarding this.
Doesn’t that seem a little strange? We are talking about the presidency of the United States! Neither candidate seems to feel it is an important enough issue to even discuss. What do we (the American people) not know? Indeed…
Even more interesting is that it seems that no states or cities are working on a solution of getting other voting machines, or attempting to work with Diebold to solve the problem. I see Diebold as a very small part of the problem.
Comment by Alan Speakman — October 12, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
A part none the less. Did you check that link to a Lou Dobbs report about those machines potentially dropping tens of thousands of votes?
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