Video: 2012 US Voting Machines Altering Votes

I started learning about who owns the electronic voting technology companies, their lobbyists and bill language drafters back in 2002. Do you remember the Help America Vote Act of 2002? That law forced electronic voting into every precinct in every county in every state in America. Gone were the paper ballots, helped along by the MSM blitz amping out the story with a photograph of a big eyeball staring down a hanging chad through a magnifying glass. It was a story out of Dade County, FL in 2000 when "hanging chads" were above the fold, reverberating though the media echosphere for the purpose of making electronic voting to be viewed as somehow superior to paper ballots. What the MSM did NOT tell you was that Sequoia (one of the 3 biggest EV tech companies), by order of their senior execs, had ordered extremely poorly milled paper to be used in their machines. That paper used for these ballots was sent ONLY to Dade County, FL. (see Dan Rather's excellent report: The Trouble with Touchscreens) The whole story was fabricated from whole cloth by political operatives. But, what do YOU remember? that goofy photo of the eyeball staring down a hanging chad. What we are presented with by the media is really quite contrived to an end.  Following that propaganda to roll out HAVA, the language of which was then drafted in the offices of a K street lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig, the political Director then being none other than Jack Abramoff who worked closely with John Boehner (now speaker of the House) to draw up the language of this terrible bill. 

In baseball, they call it a twofer: 1) Make your partisan Republican friends fabulously wealthy with mandated, ongoing contracts to manufacture poor-quality electronic voting hardware that can be easily programmed to favor 2) your friends who will then be able to hold on to power while you work with them to draft yet more legislation that rewards your friends with even more taxpayer money.

Having studied this for so long I have become even more non partisan. I conclude that if  Republicans weren't doing this sort of thing, the Democrats would. Neither major party has the corner on ethics while we are sold a bill of goods.