Lock
the Vote!
 Okay,
raise your hand if the moment you heard "electronic
voting machine" a chill did not run down your spine.
It certainly did mine.
From almost the beginning it was clear that these things
would be easily manipulated, made to
be hacked, in fact. In 2005 computer programmer
Clinton
Curtis testified before Congress that he was
hired to write code that would secretly alter the vote
count. Is it any wonder the Bush administration made
the country's switch to electronic voting such a priority?
Now the good lads at Argonne National Lab's Vulnerability
Assessment Team show us how these voting machines can
be altered with a mere $10 worth of parts, $25 if you
want to
wreck democracy
by remote control. I've embedded their how-to demonstration
in the Video Vault, below but don't expect Star Wars
as it's just two capable engineers being very precise
about these
Machiavellian devices. It's still
fascinating. And aggravating.
The state with the answer to this problem is Oregon,
which employs a mail-in vote system. You get a paper
trail, signature
verification,
and it results in an 87% participation rate by registered
voters. The average national rate in2008 was 68%. That's
win-win-win as far as I'm concerned, boys and girls.
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 Meanwhile,
Republican legislators are working feverishly to make
it harder to vote. In
Maine, for instance,
the Governor, Paul LePage, signed a bill eliminating
same-day
voter registration. This is made even more
remarkable by the fact that seven sitting Maine congressmen,
three senators,
and the governor himself all used same-day voter registration
in the past. Nice work, dickheads.
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 This
cartooning thing is a perplexing preoccupation. I occasionally
get notes from readers who insist that they prefer
my "funny" comics to my more political creations.
And yet, you want to know which of my comics is currently
making the Bandwidth-O-Meter spin like Michelle Bachmann's
eyeballs? This
one. And it's been sucking zillions
of eyeballs for more than two weeks. Who knew there
was a pent-up desire to ridicule Mitt Romney. I mean,
the man pretty much accomplishes that all on his own.
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Note: Yes, I added a couple of panels
to today's comic, many hours after initial upload.
I felt it just needed a little more oomph. So, oomphy
enough for ya?
=Lefty=
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Republican Job Creation Update
 "We're
going to have a relentless focus on creating
jobs." -
John Boehner, February 10, 2011.
The following is #90 in a list of Republican
job creation activities
since they gained control of the House in
2011. None, sad to
say,
have
yet to result in one, single new job.
(90) 9-28-2011: In a way the GOP has found a way to
employ more Americans as they've
proposed
a
bill
that
would
force
authorities
to
deport
undocumented
immigrant women who are victims
of domestic violence and come to them for help. This means more cook, maid,
field-hand, and day-care jobs for honest Americans.
NOTE: As a result of an unexpected wave of enthusiasm
the Republican
Job Creation update now has its
own web site. It will remain on the RP but a
web site of its own will raise its visibility
on the 'net as
we progress towards the critical 2012 elections.
And I thank you for your support.
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