The mad rush to install unverifiable computer voting is driven by the "Help America Vote Act", signed by Bush last year. The bill mandates that all states adopt the computerized "ineligible voter purge" system that Jeb used to eliminate 91,000 eligible black voters from the Florida rolls in 2000. The Republican-run private company that accomplished this electoral miracle, ChoicePoint, is bagging the lion's share of the new Bush-ordered purge contracts.

The rush to privatization of voting is being done primarily by four corporations with strong ties to the Republican party, and these touch screens offer totally authoritarian results with no checks, balances or verification possible.

How neat and tidy.

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