The evidence that votes are being altrered on a massive scale is only circumstantial. I would suggest the possibility based on circumstantial evidence, but I do not believe with a certainty that it is happening.
What I do believe about this issue:
Our voting system is so non-transparent that this could be happening.
Cases attempting to institute a more transparent mechanism have been dismissed.
Cases brought to trial to force evaluation of data that would determine how corruptable the computers are have been dismissed.
Our voting system is so non-transparent, that it is impossible to call our form of government a form of democracy; without making the term ‘democracy’ a meaningless term.
The ability to show computerized fraud with a closed source is so difficult, if not impossible, that the issue of whether evidenced fraud has actually been purpetrated becomes meaningless to the issue.
Every law passed since computerized vote counting has come along, has sought to make the American voting process less transparent. (modems, relocation of counting from the precint, illegality of recording media in counting areas, illegality to hand count at the precint, etc…)
While none of this proves that the votes are being manipulated on a vast scale; it does show that such an action requires almost zero effort to anyone interested along those lines, who hold key positions of power and influence.
All of this is a direct result of the direction of law and the unreasonable direction of vote transparency as time progresses forward.
Why should we feel guilty for questioning the intention of a few individuals on something so vital to our state definition as the voting process? Transparency removes all of this. There is zero reason to turn the tables on the public unless the official has something to hide.
The media makes a point that:
It is too expensive to make voting transparent.
It is too unreasonable to make voting transparent (they will use examples of having to count 100 million hands and such rediculousness)
The American public doesn’t care
The voting system already is as transparent as is reasonable
The voting system is already as ideal as is reasonable and/or possible for our present state.
The officials elected to count our ballots in secret are beyond reproach and are evaluated by the government, whom you should trust unless you are a communist.
Computerized vote counting is necessary to make the counts accurate.
Computerized vote counting is necessary to make the counts timely.
It is absolutely necessary that modems be attatched to computerized vote counting machines.
The votes must be counted within a few hours or else our country will be vulnerable to a world-wide hostile take-over.
The taxpayers are not interested in the paraniod ramblings of a few dissenters and communist critics, they will not foot the bill for an ‘unreasonable’ system of vote transparency.
We do not have a vote-transparency issue in the U.S.
The media is a free-speaking entity, and always divulges every detail of any topic critical to the public interest.
I make a point that this is insane.
There are too many dots that can be easily connected, that provide a very gloom picture for our current state of affairs in U.S. politics. Our vast and historically unprecidented resources for communication make this that much more unreasonable. All that is required to move to a next step, is a transparent system.
Until then, the evidence suggesting democracy holds as well as the evidence not suggesting it.
-Justhink
