Stalin once said that its not the people who vote that count, but the people who count the votes. 

 

However, both are important in this election.

 

With all the possible election fraud due to unsecure touch screen voting machines, flawed optical scanning machines, and state election officials who dismissed warnings by computer experts about primarliy Republican owned manufactured touch screen DRE voting machines and easily hacked or back doored software that has been proved to be vulnerable repeatedly, I am concerned about the election being stolen again by the Republicans.

 

Gotta Laff at The Policital Carnival agrees with me.

 

From the Washington Wire at WSJ: "

"Where could this year's election be tossed into confusion by voting-equipment failures?

"New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, which follows voting issues, suggests looking at Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and swing states Colorado and Virginia.

"In a report released Thursday, the center rates states on their Election Day readiness, including their plans for repairing voting machines, providing emergency paper ballots, verifying vote counts, holding post-election vote audits and reconciling the number of ballots with the number of voters.

"Brennan rated Alaska, California, Minnesota, Missouri and Oregon as most ready. Florida, where ballot problems landed the presidential election in the Supreme Court in 2000, and Ohio, where results where challenged in 2004 after polling-place problems, ranked in the middle.

Among the report's warnings:

“Louisiana, Nevada, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia have no state requirement that emergency paper ballots to be available in case voting machines fail.

“Nineteen states, indluing Colorado, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Virginia, use voting machines that have no voter-verifiable paper record.

“Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Virginia need "improvement" when it comes to accounting for all the ballots and voters after the polls close.

"The center warned that "voting systems will fail somewhere in the United States in one or more jurisdictions in the country. Unfortunately, we don't know where."

Notice that the state of Virginia appears in all three categories.  Which means that the Democratic Party in Virginia has done nothing or a woefully ineffective job publicizing this flawed balloting system or pressuring state and local election officials to correct the terrible voting problems.

It is very problematic considering that Virginia is a battleground state.

"Especially dismaying to Democratic activists are the Democratic state parties in these states like Virginia.  They know the vulnerabilities in their state's voting procedures and yet they remain reactive, and behind the curve to the detriment of Democratic voters and candidates.

This unpreparedness is maddening and inexcusable.  Just as every election cycle some of these states' local and state Democratic parties seem confounded by and unready for the repetitious, customary Republican election dirty tricks.