Appropos voting: a very disturbing article is here: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=11811 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who plans to steal the 2004 US elections? Some people have it figured out By Egan Orion: Monday 29 September 2003, 06:04 AFTER THE VOTING MESS in Florida during the 2000 elections, the US Congress passed the "Help America Vote Act". They should have more accurately entitled it the "Help Steal America's Vote Act" instead. However, at least one journalist has cottoned on to what's happening, and it is simply outrageous. We reprint by permission Chris Floyd's dynamite article at CounterPunch exposing these sordid facts. <SNIP> <<the original story is here: http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09262003.html >> It's a shell game, with money, companies and corporate brands switching in a blur of buy-outs and bogus fronts. It's a sinkhole, where mobbed-up operators, paid-off public servants, crazed Christian fascists, CIA shadow-jobbers, war-pimping arms dealers--and presidential family members--lie down together in the slime. It's a hacker's dream, with pork-funded, half-finished, secretly-programmed computer systems installed without basic security standards by politically-partisan private firms, and protected by law from public scrutiny. It's how America, the "world's greatest democracy," casts its votes. And it's why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States--no matter what the people of the United States might want. <SNIP> ----------------------Kaos-Keraunos-Kybernetos--------------------------- + ^ + :25Kliters anthrax, 38K liters botulinum toxin, 500 tons of /|\ \|/ :sarin, mustard and VX gas, mobile bio-weapons labs, nukular /\|/\ <--*-->:weapons.. Reasons for war on Iraq - GWB 2003-01-28 speech. \/|\/ /|\ :Found to date: 0. Cost of war: $800,000,000,000 USD. \|/ + v + : The look on Sadam's face - priceless! --------_sunder_@_sunder_._net_------- http://www.sunder.net ------------