October Surprise found in November
I have been on the lookout for Karl Rove’s promised ‘October Surprise’.
I think it has finally been found, albiet a little sooner than it was intended to be discovered. I am betting that ‘Turd Blossom‘ was hoping that nobody would discover his ‘October Surprise’, especially before the midterm elections were held.
So, any guesses? No fair peeking.
I think that his big surprise is not really a surprise but rather the ongoing manipulation of elections using the electronic voting machines to manipulate the election results.
Here is a story on the engadget website which documents problems with Florida’s Diebold machines. The article describes how a voter could not get his ballot to register his vote for the Democratic candidate for governor. According to a spokesperson:
Mary Cooney, a Broward County Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman, informed The Miami Herald that it’s “not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly.
Does this make sense to you? It sure doesn’t make sense to me…
Across the country, people are reporting problems in early voting where the machines are registering a straight Republican ticket, when a straight Democratic ticket was selected.
On Thursday November 2, 2006, HBO will be airing a documentary on Diebold voting machines. Called Hacking Democracy , the film explores the problems with the voting machines and looks to the 2004 election for evidence. Computerworld has a review of the film.
