Pulling the Thread

This video comes courtesy of Chris at Susie's place via Avedon Carol.  I'm going to be redundant here because this is one of those things that can't get enough exposure.   

Chris called the video "The Problem" and s/he's right on the money.  People like Sara Taylor swear their allegiance to BushCo but let's be clear -  the rest of the government is swearing its allegiance to ever other Co. out there.  That's why we get HAVA, Holt's H.R. 811, Medicare Part D and nearly every piece of legislation written. 

It' s nice to see Leahy all up in arms with Bushkevik, Sara Taylor, but I hope he went from that hearing room to his office to tell someone to get his name off of S.1497, Feinstein's horrifying "Ballot Integrity Act of 2007."

Going even further, the bill allows those corporations to assist in deciding how to enforce the trade secrecy of their software.

Since the bill also requires that all voting systems in use after 2010 be certified by the EAC, those four Presidential appointees will decide which corporations and which of their products will be in charge of the secret vote-counting process in every State.

As Teresa Hommel of WheresThePaper.org says: “These paragraphs explicitly sell out American democracy to corporate commercial interests. The EAC and vendors, without other stakeholders such as states, parties, and citizens, will develop a process to protect private interests from public knowledge of how our elections are conducted.”