{"id":20834,"date":"2016-05-29T18:34:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20834"},"modified":"2016-05-29T18:34:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T23:34:48","slug":"brad-friedman-why-to-be-suspicious-of-every-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20834","title":{"rendered":"Brad Friedman: Why To Be Suspicious Of Every Election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brad Friedman: Why To Be Suspicious Of Every Election<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Electronic voting machines have opened up Pandora’s box\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Long an ‘exporter of democracy’ to the rest of the world, there is ample evidence that the United States lacks even the most rudimentary, basic protections necessary to preserve voting integrity within its own borders.<\/p>\n

Some of the evidence is circumstantial, some is statistical, and some is pretty direct and clear-cut. Taken together, a pattern that emerges strongly suggesting that ever since voting machines, electronic voting machines were introduced in the United States, we\u2019ve had a string of suspect election results that frankly are not consistent with a free and fair voting outcome.<\/p>\n

This week, we’re joined by Brad Friedman, election integrity analyst to understand better the systems and practices currently in place to collect and tally votes in America. As we gear up to elect our next president, it’s clear that numerous concerns exist about the state of ‘free and fair’ voting in our country:<\/div>\n

Trust is different than ‘verifiable’. Trust, frankly, has no place in elections. There is no reason to ever trust anybody. We need to be able to\u00a0verify\u00a0<\/em>all of this.<\/p>\n

There are basically two different types of electronic voting systems that are currently used today.<\/p>\n

One is the touchscreen system that people know about. They\u2019ve seen those votes flipping and so forth.\u00a0Those machines are, in fact, 100 percent unverifiable — period.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ve asked the companies that make the systems many times, if they have any evidence whatsoever that any vote ever cast on one of those machines during an election, for any candidate or initiative on the ballot, if any of those votes have ever been recorded as per the voter\u2019s intent, any evidence whatsoever. They have none — they are 100 percent unverifiable. Thankfully, many states are getting rid of those and they\u2019re moving to paper ballots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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