This was buried in the earlier piece concerning Lou Dobb’s coverage of Electronic Voting in which his report alleges that these machines and the private company’s that now control our vote are a “threat to democracy”. But the later CNN segment with Jack Cafferty deserves to be front and center.
Said Cafferty yesterday (complete must-read transcript of the segment is below!):
Defenders of these machines say that most of the problems occur because of hasty setup or poor training of poll workers. What’s the message there, that it’s OK as long as it’s one of those two reasons?”
THANK GOD someone in the MSM finally gets it! Lord knows Wolf doesn’t! See the full transcript below for answers from emailers to Cafferty’s question-of-the-day yesterday: “Do you trust the honesty of America’s election process?”
Regular BRAD BLOG readers won’t be surprised at the answers sent in. Only that CNN actually read them on air! (Thank you, Jack Cafferty!)
…CONTACT…
Email: caffertyfile@CNN.com
Or go to CNN.com/caffertyfile
The arguments against the machines include these: they’re vulnerable to software tampering, they don’t keep an easily recountable printed record, and they may miscount, switch or not record votes at all. Other than that, they’re great.
Defenders of these machines say that most of the problems occur because of hasty setup or poor training of poll workers. What’s the message there, that it’s OK as long as it’s one of those two reasons?
About one third of the U.S. counties use some electronic systems. This is a significant increase since 2000, the presidential election, and the Florida ballot recount. The rest of the country, though, still uses hand-counted paper ballots and lever-type voting machines.
So the question is this: Do you trust the honesty of America’s election process?
E-mail your thoughts to caffertyfile@CNN.com or go to CNN.com/caffertyfile.
BLITZER: Let’s check back with Jack Cafferty with “The Cafferty File” — Jack.
CAFFERTY: Wolf, as primary season heats up and voters go to the polls in eight states tomorrow, lawsuits have been filed in six states to block the purchase or use of electronic voting machines.
The question we asked, is do you trust the honesty of America’s election process?
Michelle writes from San Antonio, Texas: “Let me tell you about voting in my state’s primary in March. There I stood in front of the electronic voting machine while the poll worker told me how to use it. When he was finished, I asked, ‘How do I know when I press the button, my vote gets counted as I intend?’ He stared at me with a puzzled look, not knowing what to say. Finally, he said, ‘Trust, I guess.’ Well, that’s not good enough.
Pat in Pincianna, Florida: “First, I don’t think — I think we need to shut down Diebold” — that’s a voting machine company — “so we don’t have to worry about unverifiable counts. Then we need to go back to a paper ballot or any low tech system that’s harder for the crooks and gives us a real paper trail to follow.”
Richard in Union City writes, “I trust my vote is counted. If you begin to think it doesn’t count, then you become too cynical and you stop voting.”
Skylar in Coconut Creek, Florida: “I trust the honesty of the process. I just don’t always trust the honesty of the people who are overseeing the process.”
Gerald in Tampa, Florida: “I live in Florida and I feel like I’m voting on an Etch-a-Sketch machine. We have a law that prohibits a paper trail. Why did our legislature think that was a good idea?”
And Rick in San Diego writes, “Sure, I believe our vote counting system is honest. If you don’t believe me, just ask President Gore” — Wolf.
BLITZER: Jack, thank you very much.
22 Comments on “CNN’s Jack Cafferty Derides Electronic Voting Machines!”
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Done.
Hey Brad:
Do you ever feel like trying to get someone in the mass media to tell the TRUTH and GET THE STORY RIGHT a non partisan issue about totally hackable electronic voting machines controlled by a bunch of CRIMINAL thugs is like trying to pull a stupid untrained dog on a leash with a -0- attention span who wants to go the wrong direction at every turn???
PATIENCE is a terrific virtue.
A Giant Thank-you to Jack Cafferty and RFK Jr for shouting it out about all this election hanky-panky!
This subject can’t be talked about enough!
Keep talking about it! Shout it out!
Hey Brad:
Do you ever feel like trying to get someone in the mass media to tell the TRUTH and GET THE STORY RIGHT a non partisan issue about totally hackable electronic voting machines controlled by a bunch of CRIMINAL thugs is like trying to pull a stupid untrained dog on a leash with a -0- attention span who wants to go the wrong direction at every turn???
PATIENCE is a terrific virtue.
Also done.
Sorry bout the double double.
THANK YOU BRAD! Keeping fight this very important fight. You are the MAN on this.
And for everything
">JACK CAFFERTY
It looks to me like somebody (Jack & Lou) actually read the Rolling Stone article
Good plug Bobby jr
Brad, without Kennedy we would be in the same place we were a week ago
Wolf Blitzer is "on the take" with the Administration propaganda machine….either that or he’s brain dead! McCafferty is the one individual at MSNBC with any chutzpah at all! Forget mainstream media….it’s already been proven to be propagandized in it’s reporting. And Fox…phew! What planet are they living on? What a bunch of fools – they should be ashamed of themselves to call themselves "balanced and fair" reporting. Hahahaha!
Roz, thats why I like to call him "Mush Head Blitzer"
Don’t you think he reports like he has nothing between the ears except for mush ?
Done!
Robert F Kennedy Jr. was just on with Thom
Hartmann,.. at the tail end of the segment,.. where it seemed Hartmann might switch segments,.. with a commercial break in between,..
Kennedy came back on ,.. hollering to Hartmann,..
wait,.. wait,… I just want to say one more thing,..
are we still on the air,.. can your listeners hear me,.. Hartmann assured him he was on air,.. go ahead,.. what did you want to say,..
Kennedy said,… This voting fraud and these faulty
electronic voting machines,.. I am,.. we are not done addressing these issues by a long shot.
In the next few weeks we intend to take some legal action against individuals and electronic voting machine companies who are perverting our democracy.
The law firm of Levin and Papantonio are in the process of drawing up these law suits. Kennedy asked if anyone out there has direct information of illegality of fraudulent vote tabulation procedures that occurred,.. no matter what jurisdiction,.. or if any insiders who are employed by or were employed by these electronic voting machine vendors,.. and has knowledge of questionable or illegal conduct,.. to please contact Kennedy. He said,.. Ring of Fire – Kennedy/(Mike)Papantonio,.. has a phone and web contact source,.. or call Levin/Papantonio direct.
It seems Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not going to let this issue die or go stale,.. this could be a big boon to Bradblog,.. and the resultant exposure brought to this issue. Why slay this fire breathing dragon single handily,.. a team approach can’t help but bring a more satisfactory result.
Any litigation,.. the rights of "discovery" will crash through the wall of claims of "top-secret",..
"priority information",.. "a direct risk to national security" – the shroud of secrecy,..
Kennedy/Papantonio may finally pierce. Bring full
exposure to this blatant election fraud.
Old Turk #12
That’s great news – Go Bobby Go!
I sent Lou Dobbs an email regarding electronic voting and I about fell out of my chair when he read it on the air today! Finally some MSM attention to this subject. You go Brad…
This is indeed the right day to be discussing vote count fiascoes, given the eerie timing of the year 2000 Presidential election. Divide the official Greenwich Twentieth Century 1-1-1901 to 12-31-2000 into 666 equal slices, and the 666th began precisely when voters were gathering in Dixville Notch, NH to vote at the stroke of midnight. This little town’s vote count came off OK two hours later, but we all know what happened when the counting got around to Florida–more on this and other electoral uncanniness at http://www.squidoo.com/dixville/ Here’s hoping the states that voted today 06-06-06 don’t run into similar troubles!
Jay Leno is helping the cause.
In his monologue tonight he said, "…Bush is trying to pass an amendment to the Constitution banning gay marriage but he doesn’t have enough votes to get it passed—–but then when did a lack of votes ever stop George Bush?"
Ricky says "Done!", I hope that means he’s done posting here
(just kidding, Rick, your kind of an affable pain in the ass)
DONE! I emailed him.
Comment #11: Is that "THE" Ricky? And he sent Cafferty an email??? Huh???
Acting pariotic
That link doesn’t work. Hope you’re for real.
As far as Ricky’s "Done" goes, he probably sent an FU letter to Jack. God forbid elections don’t get stolen in the future. People might realize that the republicants are way in the minority in this country.
Old Turk #12
Wow!
Moses comes down from the mountain!
And he is Kennedy!
I am waiting for the Bush Administration to pull a “terror” alert right before the election. He still thinks we are really dumb when it comes to his schemes.