when the Russians say your voting machines are jun

[GURPS (Premo)]

Hack the vote: Russian election chief rips US elections, voting machines

Russia’s Central Election Commission chief has ranked the American electoral system among the “worst in the world.”

One of the main problems with the US electoral system is the lack of transparency, Vladimir Churov argues in an article published in Wednesday’s issue of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

According to US law, international observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are only granted access to polling stations in a handful of US states, including in Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, New Mexico, and the District of Columbia.

In the other states, US Governors have the final say over the question of allowing international observers to monitor the election process.
According to Churov, however, the dark side of the American election process is that “OSCE monitors have been barred from entering polling stations even in the states where they may do so under US law.”

This lack of transparency opens the door to numerous possibilities for corruption and manipulation of the system, he added.

Churov then discussed a perennial problem with American elections: electronic voting machines that do not provide voters with a receipt for their vote, and which are highly vulnerable to manipulation.

"American voting machines have not been designed to provide any documentary evidence of citizen participation in the electoral process,” the Russian observer noted. “Moreover, operators [of the machinery] are technically capable of adding or dropping votes in favor of one candidate or another, leaving behind no evidence of violations.”

In October’s issue of Harper’s Magazine, Victoria Collier shows that with the advent of modern technology, “a brave new world of election rigging emerged,” which emerged with the “mass adoption of computerized voting technology and the outsourcing of our elections to a handful of corporations that operate in the shadows, with little oversight or accountability.”

Collier called the “privatization of our elections…one of the most dangerous and least understood crisis in the history of American democracy.”
Meanwhile, another study demonstrated that a person armed with about 10 bucks and a limited knowledge of technology could hack the vote.

“Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an eighth grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois,” reported Salon.

The analysts showed that the “newly developed hack” could manipulate voting results while leaving “absolutely no trace” of the crime behind.

Computer specialists can easily break into the system and cook the results, Churov said, adding that the owners of the Diebold voting machines have openly stated in the past their support of the Republican Party.

Well the GOP did not get its moneys worth if Diebold Supports the GOP

[jetmonkey]

Russia’s Central Election Commission chief has ranked the American electoral system among the “worst in the world.”

It's true

[GURPS (Premo)]

yep, No Accountability

[acommondisaster]

Computer specialists can easily break into the system and cook the results, Churov said, adding that the owners of the Diebold voting machines have openly stated in the past their support of the Republican Party.

Except that in many states, SEIU managed the voting machines. I still don't trust a russian half as far as I could throw one.

[mamatutu]

If the Russians are commenting on our voting process...well, what does that tell you? It is either Russian propaganda, or American propaganda. So, we are screwed either way. Sorry, I don't have any back up research, BigBlue. I just think Dems are scared that they backed Obama, and Repubs are scared that they backed a loser. Either way, America loses. I want to know who will stand up for America and the Constitution. It is time for actual patriot voices to be heard. JMO

[Larry Gude (Premo)]

I don't understand the question. If we have a two party system in the US, and we do, and one party is for more government and more spending and, conversely, the opposing party is for more spending and then more government and the more government and more spending party wins, can't it be said that our system works pretty much flawlessly?