Moon Pie wrote:
] Not only is the American voting code secretly held by private
] companies (naturally for copyright reasons; the Dollar trumps
] Democracy every time), but private companies manufacture the
] voting machines. And those companies are owned, predominantly,
] by Republican interests. Including Senator Chuck Hagel of
] Nebraska, who won by a landslide on machines made by Election
] Systems and Software (ES&S), a company he owned a considerable
] interest in. And he wasn't the only one.

That's pretty 'conspiracy theory' if you ask me. That's like saying that the slots and video poker machines in vegas are rigged. Everyone knows that gambling is basically just giving your money to someone else for the privilege of them wasting your time. In the case of digital voting machines, it's hard to say that they would be 'biased'.

but then again, I might file this under my three rules:

1) everything you hear is untrue
2) everything you hear has some truth to it
3) everything in life is rigged

RE: Open Source Code Meets Democracy - in Australia anyway