IP #223: Black Box Voting and Worse

The election system is broken. We reprised our segment on Black Box voting. You may start off thinking that those voting machines are ... all » really ripping off our democracy, but there's more: The Black Box investigators found out the system is broken in many other ways too.

"Understand something. You cannot manipulate a national election without having a network of local corruption. That local corruption has evolved over about 100 years. But it is fairly easy to find by simply following the money in a given county. For example, in some counties the money is in development and the key positions which are most vulnerable to election corruption are the county supervisor or county commissioner positions which sign off on zoning because millions and sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars flow right through them. In fact, elections are becoming part of a money laundering process and I don't think its too strong to say that. Many of the different places we have visited, when you ask enough questions, you see that a lot of the county corruption traces right back to the money flow in that county, and it differs county by county." www.blackboxvoting.org

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