Friday, November 03, 2006
Hacking Democracy
Last night was the only time I have wished everyone had HBO. The HBO documentary "Hacking Democracy" was something everyone should have seen. It proved that election fraud is not something that is just a conspiracy theory, it is something that easily could be done and probably has been done. Then again, how do you get proof fraud has been done with no paper trail? I suppose that is the evil genus of it. I am not sure how many lies Diebold told during the show, but it seemed to be every time someone from that company opened their mouth. It really makes me wonder if I want to take the time to go vote on Tuesday. I will and hope for the best, but I don't live under the illusion that my vote will actually be recorded as it was cast. Anyhow, you can visit HBO to learn more about the show if you missed it. I am sure it will be on DVD soon.
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I didn't see it, did they give any indication of what they thought this Diebold moment would look like?
I watched the show, but still have no clue what a Diebold moment looks like.
INVISIBLE BALLOTS -- A Review Of William Gazecki's New Film Documentary Of The Same Name
By Alfred Lehmberg
www.AlienView.net
I am going to make a rather shameful disclosure to you, reader. I've been casually disrespecting the foundations of a federal republic I'd presumed (a result of ceaseless but duplicitous inculcation) was in better shape than it _was_. And it is decidedly _not_ in good shape I have very fearfully discovered. It is much, much more troubled than I would have dared think!
The shameful disclosure? I have _never_ VOTED, sir or madam, not at the State, Local, _or_ Federal level. My last vote was for a rally chairman in high school circa 1965.
Up until just recently, a fierce independent and ardent individualist, I was rather of proud of that. I even thought I could justify it...
No more.
Retired military, I too conveniently rationalized that I served my country in other ways, never served in one stateside spot long enough to feel responsible, and never got excited about the choices I was offered, anyway! It always seemed to me that our two party system only presented alternate heads of the same beast. I still believe the latter to a degree. I digress.
What's changed? In a nutshell, it seems the electoral ballots we cast in our elections... Local, State, And Federal, begin to fade to an awful and seeming inexorable "invisibility", as we speak. That's not a metaphor, folks. Our individual vote _is_ dissolving to an insubstantial nothingness... a valueless nothingness. An insidious nothingness.
The ballots we cast in our elections, our exercise of rights in what _could_ be a glorious republic... have quietly (...so _without_ appropriate fanfare!) begun to discorporate from a physical reality that can be checked and verified... into an electronic _virtual_ reality that _cannot_ be checked and verified... Electronic TouchScreen Voting. It should stand the hair on the back of your neck, reader!
I had always thought that the vote, as it was _supposed_ to be practiced in the United States of America, actually _meant_ something! I felt well served with that. Insulated.
In the fashion that ones vote was presumed recorded, tallied, and otherwise counted (_recounted_ if necessary!)..., it was an action taken by an individual in this country that _actually_ moved a counting tumbler... somewhere... in the direction that a 'voter' had indicated that it should go... given the choices available to make. That _was_ the presumption. This electoral 'count', as ultimately meaningless as it _may_ have been (given the proscribed choices), _was_ effected by an action the 'individual' took... or did not take. I felt safe ...not... voting, given an egalitarian system of _some_ ethics in the process where an individual had a snowball's chance to be heard, to have impact, however small.
A person, an individual..., I'd always presumed, _could_ participate in the process of how they were governed, even if it _was_ only an illusion of participation. A vote DID count for _something_... an either/or of limited choices... but a _choice_ none the less! ...So I thought!
This, very likely, may no longer be, remotely, the case, reader! It _may_ be that your effort taken to indicate a vote _might_ be as meaningless as a puff of flatulent air! Your individually consequential vote may be in danger of being rendered (...by canted neo-cons one discovers, apart from the focus of the film reviewed...) into a _complete_ illusion... even if it was only a virtual illusion before.
Be that as it may... the always tenuous "popular" vote has likely _already_ been hijacked and is in the egregiously stealthy process of being rendered meaningless... _your_ will and choice negated to a worthless exercise in pathetic futility!
Oscar Nominated Filmmaker William Gazecki has completed another compelling documentary giving _every_ indication that it is as bad as all that! What Mr. Gazecki outlines (in a compelling montage of vetted experts...) is an _outrage_ of pointed disrespect that is bereft of _all_ hyperbole!
Gazecki outlines a clear and active threat to any SEMBLANCE of continuing to live in a free society for any one of us! Additionally, he alludes to an unwarranted, unwelcome, and unnecessary 'partisan' holding arbitrary sway... a monstrously conflicted and non constructive 'intrusion' on that free society (...with regard to the biased and otherwise documented 'spiritual convictions' of the, too few, 'owners')!
Who 'owns' democracy? Does not an 'owned' democracy cease to be?
Gazecki does not go into the neo-conic proprietary ownership (near monopoly!) of our national voting mechanism in his film, but it is well known. His contention, instead and even _more_ significant actually, is that a proprietary ownership of the voting mechanism by ANY single private entity is a bad thing. ...A VERY bad thing!
...Very bad...
Why is that, you ask? Well... here's just a taste:
Because it doesn't 'work'! Because it can't be checked! Because it is too needlessly (and duplicitously!) complicated! Because it is needlessly or horrifically expensive! Because there's no paper record produced by it! Because it renders a vote "recount" impossible and meaningless! Because there is no indisputable audit trail for the maintenance of the hardware and software! Because it is "overwhelming" to most poorly trained election workers! Because some of the persons officiating the corporate aspect of it... are criminals! Because it is effortlessly _easy_ to stealthily defeat or hack! Because there is no independent oversight! Because it is difficult to set up and run! Because its software is patched with unauthorized and undocumented 'fixes'! Because we can't INSPECT the nature of the software code (...which can say _anything_!) or the hardware machines (...which can be secretly TOLD to say _anything_)!
...Because it is turning our system of government wholly over into the hands of non-accountable and elitist corporate sociopaths!
Enough?
At best, all this is hobbling and socially regressive! At worst it's culturally dangerous... a short detour to the cruelest fascism! Among too many other valid criticisms to list, it is socially static and unrewarding, and it is without any respect for the individual _concerned_ about the quality of his individual vote -- its _biggest_ injury/insult, in my opinion. Your civil rights are discounted, nullified, and retired! You (..,You!) are betrayed.
This evil betrayal of our republic spits in _your_ face, reader. Feel rankly dreadful viscous-ness drool down your cheek and into your open mouth... with my apologies.
Sorry if that revolted your sensibilities. It had to be said. ...Everybody take a deep breath... I won't do that again.
Gazecki's 90 minute film, a concerned clarion cry of cultural warning, provides the individual with a cogent stream of competent professional people, university professors, United States Representatives, Election workers, Investigative journalists, systems engineers, research consultants, software experts... and significant others et al ... ALL suggesting a very strong potential for a dire threat to our representative government and free republic! No hype and histrionics here, sir or madam!
In one instance, for example, a radical conservative owned the proprietary rights to the suspect and dodgy touch-screen electronic voting machines... that put him in office! _Presuming_ ethical behavior (...which has a damned good chance of going the other way, and south, _fast_... good reader!) is not remotely wise, forgetting that it is a clear conflict of rational interest that cannot be allowed... or _remotely_ tolerated... from _anyone_! Christ himself! Verily!
Allowing the henhouse keys to indicted _foxes_ already raping this country is patent lunacy, folks! You'd stop it if you could, if you knew about it... and you can. I'd mentioned that some of the key officiators were convicted confidence men... history will look back on _you_ reader, and wonder... "What the hell was she THINKING"!?! Gazecki makes no sociological call on any of this, himself, remember, but showcases the facts for ready inspection by the viewer, regardless. In all honesty _this_ time... he reports; you decide.
I'd suggest that this -abomination- of biased CONTROL through -our- (...public! You can bet we paid for it!) voting software and hardware (by an -extremely- canted and partisan minority!), is an affront to our nation constitutionally, morally and ethically, and it is a clear disregard of the public interest that should otherwise be served!
That's why I'm voting this time, for the first time _ever_, folks, "absentee", so there is a paper record (...recommended for all reading this review!) which can still be counted and remains bereft of the 'Ballot Invisibility' William Gazecki very convincingly describes in his landmark film. My 'vote' (...that I had shamefully taken for granted...) becomes precious to me when it is threatened to become a _complete_ charade!
The bastards in non-elected leadership should have remained content just dictating the overall choice I could make. They err in trying to absolve _my_ choice completely. Al-Qaeda is preferable to these SOBs!
If you've never voted, reader, or are comfortable with aggregate election machinery that is privately owned, secretly officiated and arbitrarily controlled... get a copy of this film before not a _shred_ of democracy remains! VOTE, friends and neighbors! Now more than ever.
Oh -- the fix? That's easy!
Faster ain't _always_ better, folks! What price 'fast' if you can't trust it? We take the _time_ and spend less money (In the long run) to do a _hands-on_ job (...with a troglodyte's paper trail!), RIGHT! A hanging chad is at least VISIBLE, friend! It trumps an "Invisible Ballot" seven ways to Sunday! Lastly, Congress made this happen, folks! They can make it "un-happen"! Sweat the bastards! I'm going to!
See -- it's simple. We got into it, simply, in the dark. We can get out of it, simply (using old, verifiable, technology!) in the light. To bad if heads have to roll. We'd have had too many real heads roll... innocent heads... later on, allowing this insanity to continue...
Contact www.williamgazecki.com or http://www.invisibleballots.com/ for more info and details. If you saw only one video this year, I've no doubt that this is the one it should be...
Read on, but vote absentee.
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Very nice! Thanks for that Al!
By Diebold moment I guess I meant what alfred fleshes out above. I was wondering if the film directly mentions some likely outcome this tuesday, but after looking at it on IMDB I guess it's more of a generic offering.
The film didn't directly mention that, but it didn't really have to since it is obvious all those machines are still being used and the film did say that none of the flaws had been fixed. I still am really impressed that something like that ran on a major channel, even if it was a cable channel. There needs to be more media outlets with enough balls to do such programming.
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