Democracy for Vancouver

No exit polls for this election

On the Thom Hartmann show the other morning, Thom mentioned that there will NOT be exit polling for this election. That means that even if there is widespread election tampering, we will not know it happened.

The reason? According to Thom, exit polls have always been extremely accurate until the 2000 election with the exception of the Dewey-Truman race. Ever since 2000, the exit polls have been wrong. The result is that all the exit polling companies have gone out of business.

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(Click on image to view graphic) It’s easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman.

I’d like to know why it has been six years since Gore won the Presidential election and our election system is worse than when the “chads were hanging”. A requirement for paper ballots is so obvious it insults my intelligence that anyone in charge of elections would even consider a paperless system. Could it be that the Republicans don’t believe in having a fair election system? Nawww.

Here comes another stolen election. I’ll vote anyway, just in case the outcome hasn’t already been decided.

Here is a link to a Kucinich video on paper ballots. He’s doing his preacher/Howard Dean impression.