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Rather’s “Trouble with Touch Screens”

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Dan Rather takes a close look at balloting and the change-over to touch screens. I recommend watching this clip. It’s an amazing and infuriating report. The entire piece was originally broadcast on HDNet in August.

Rather suggests that the reason for the chaos in Florida in 2000 had to do with corporate corruption - an interest in selling touch screens to the US government in place of paper ballots. In other words, Sequoia Voting Systems deliberately made poor quality ballots to push the sale of electronic voting machines. In the process they seriously compromised our democracy and sentenced us to eight years of inept leadership.

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