I worked out a new voting system that,
combining the good points of paper voting with those of computing,
guarantees quick, honest and verifiable results.
Please read details at
www.ClearVoting.com
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News
2004-08-06
Foreign observers to audit USA 2004 election
news from The Whashington Times
and Cnn.com
US Governament asked
OSCE to
watch over next Presidential elections.
I mailed the OCSE and asked them how they will be able to verify election's result.
Their spokesman's answer was as simple as that:
"The OSCE does not certify elections, it observes those
and reports on its findings.
In this case your question should be directed to the US electoral
authorities."
Which other answer might I have received?
A big quantity of votes will flow out from those black boxes called voting machines, and thus they will
be not verifiable at all: their results can be accepted only having an absolute faith in the absence of any error
and fraud. Furthermore there is no way to detect errors nor fraud because the true result each
voting machine is supposed to give is, obviously, not know in advance.
The OSCE checks elections from decades but it had never worked on any of the western
countries, since, up to now, their institutions always garanted the
required democratic control over elections.
So a question arises: Why just now US ask for international observers to watch over its election?
Why the most powerful country of the world asks to undergo the same humiliating treatment
of countries new to
democracy and/or in which democracy is in great peril ?
Please don't tell me the reason is the 2000 counting debacle! It almost a couple of centuries that all
the western countries use ballot papers to elect their Parliaments without any serious claim of fraud.
The real answer is that US government has requested help from the OCSE trying to prevent the arising of
doubts about the electoral result. Government knows nothing can prevent such doubts since next election
will be much out of any democratic control, thus
US has choosen to present the OCSE to public opinion as
a democracy guarantor,
omitting to say the OCSE it is not able, nor willing, to certify results of electronic vote!
results at the end will be not certified
by any third part authority while public opinion will think they are.
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