The People Must Count the Votes

Last night I listened to a radio show with Bev Harris from Black Box Voting and she made it clear that the United States now has strictly corporatized elections where the public is forbidden to be in any polling place on Election Night to participate in the counting of the votes.

People may think that having "paper trails" in the computerized voting machines is the answer to the problem, but the program on YouTube, "Hacking Democracy" clearly shows that these machines can still be hacked from outside and the vote count changed.

If we do not deep-six all computerized voting machines that are owned by private corporations and go back to paper and ink votes counted by the public we will have forfeited our democracy once and for all.  The ability of the public to be able to participate in a hands on vote recount in any precinct with clearly marked ballots is essential for a free and fair election in a democracy.

A national campaign must be launched immediately to allow the public to observe all vote counting on election night (primary and national) with video taping.  

We are fools if trust private corporations to run our elections.  

Remember the quote from Stalin:  "It's not who votes that is important.  It is who COUNTS the votes that matters."