Election Reform

In 2004, my wife and I were voting and witnessed a DRE that flipped votes on a Senate race (long story). We called officials, protested, and demonstrated the machined occasionally changed votes to the GOP candidate. The machine was taken out of service, "rebooted; reset"?, and put back in service. I was escorted out for politely protesting and demanding impounding the machine. I was threatened by the election supervisor for continuing to argue.

Concerning that same election, the American Statistical Association published an article in Chance magazine analyzing the undervote in Florida (13), early voting, etc. and concluding that that wrong candidate was "elected".

In other words, no one will allow precinct data, access to the source code of the machines, or mirror polls so that "proof" is gathered. Just like John Snow (look him up), a number of collections of evidence point to the inevitable conclusion that some elections are manipulated - most recently by hacking the DRE's and tabulators.

At this point, there is way to much evidence to indicate that investigations and a paper trail should be the minimum process. My experience in Florida has been repeated all over the US. Richard Charmin sorts out the distributional evidence compared to exit polls. Others have focused on the machines, etc. Regardless, there can't be any more convincing evidence than I've seen in Florida. I haven't seen a UFO, I'm not worried about birth certificates.