The sad thing about the holes in the GEMS system is that it would seem deliberate.
Yes, voting fraud has been around for a long time, but it has never been so easy or so
obvious. Yes the winner of the election will only depend on what the news stations report,
and yes 99% of the population would never know the difference.

But this is just down right sad. The company the makes the software for the electronic vote
counting is a major republican contributor, and the electronic voting system was pushed
through just in time for the 2004 election by a republican incumbent, republican house, and
republican senate, validated by a republican supreme court.

If we all sit back and say "its always been tampered with, why fight it now?" then why even
bother having an election? We will all sit back and watch it get steadily worse and worse as
the years go by until we no longer have even a fake democracy. We’ll just have party
appointed officials who answer to no one at all.

Top this off with a currently privatized media system that legally is not required to tell the
truth in its broadcasts, brute force laws on the books that bully private organizations into not
criticizing politicians, and gee-dubya behind the wheel shouting into the darkness at invisible
threats of terrorism.

WE are currently at the head point of a time when America will soon be in a SUSTAINED war
effort against unknown enemies and the ambiguous "hunch" that we "might be attacked" at
any moment. How do you feel about going to the front lines based off a hunch? Guess what,
you might. Remember that lovely thing called the draft? Well it might be coming back as soon
as next year, with the age range going from 18-25 to 18-34. Men AND women.

Of course, http://www.sss.gov states that there is no draft, but their own timetables show
that the government will be ready to (if the need arises) by as early as June 15th 2005. As
they state, this is nothing new, but considering that the white house is already pulling IRR
(individual ready reserve) members back into active duty to meet the demand for fresh meat
in Iraq does a draft seems that far off? Besides, aren’t we still occupying Afghanistan too?

Kind of makes me want to expatriate. Or revolt.

P.S. Wouldn't it be funny if bush wins by more votes than there are people in the world?
Might actually get this stuff the media attention it deserves..