January 1, 2004
As a Vietnam-era veteran, I feel obligated to let our troops know about the DoD internet voting scam already in place for 2004. The Pentagon has awarded a contract to Accenture, the renamed consulting wing of Arthur Anderson (of Enron fame), to count up to 6 million military votes in the offshore tax haven of Bermuda with no scrutiny whatsoever.
Very ironically, internet and touch screen voting came about after the debacle in Florida in 2000 and were supposed to ensure voting integrity. Instead, lucrative contracts were given to companies with strong Republican ties to our current administration and these new machines are nonverifiable, nonauditable and have no paper trail. There is already ample evidence these machines may have changed the outcome of several Congressional and gubernatorial races in 2002.
Up
to now, a proprietary trade secrets law has been successfully used to prevent any auditing of results.
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