The Unconstrained Podcast

Dirty Voting--Brent Turner


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''The closer you look, the dirtier it gets,'' says Brent Turner, activist with the Open Voting Consortium, www.openvoting.org.Today is Election Day! Do you know where your vote WENT? Originally a civil rights activist, Brent has been ringing the alarm about the very systems in place that the average voter naively assumes make a fair, just and unmanipulated tabulation of the most basic cornerstone of democracy: voting. The piece of the puzzle most vulnerable is the software used to count our votes. Who manufactures it? Who knows how to manipulate it? How can there be public oversight of the final tabulations if the computers doing the counting are programmed secretly? DON'T GET CYNICAL. GET MAD.Recorded April 2009.
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The Unconstrained PodcastBy [email protected] (Myles Wakeham)