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Roy Schestowitz at TechRights reports:
Microsoft wages war on politics in all sorts of ways, sometimes through lobbyists, sometimes through 'former' staff, pseudo 'charities' like the Gates Foundation, and pressure groups like the Business Software Alliance.
Today we present information given to us courtesy of the California Association of Voting Officials. They complain about Microsoft lobbyists and they have expressed an interest in aligning for global issues, for they too realise that Microsoft cannot be ignored if society wants fair elections and ultimately pursues voting machinery that can be trusted.
Microsoft lobbying in this area is a scarcely explored topic. There is very little information about it out there, hence we hardly ever covered the topic. It is widely known, however, that voting machines in the US use Windows, which has back doors and therefore can never be trusted, with or without tampering by a human operator.
[...]Somehow, despite public will to induce transparency, accountability, audits, etc. on the process, decades later we are still [...] heavily dependent on a proprietary, secretive system (or set thereof).
[...]"We put open source language into voting system legislation", told us [sic] someone from the California Association of Voting Officials, "and the Microsoft lobbyists have it removed.
"This must be stopped as OS voting systems are a preferred security environment for vote tabulation... the alternative being Diebold / Dominion / Microsoft, etc."[...]
The head attorneys for President Obama's election report (which omitted open source voting system solutions even though the information was gifted to them) work for firms that lobby and/or represent Microsoft (Bob Bauer of Perkins Coie and Ben Ginsburg of Pattons Boggs/Jones Day)
Nate Persily was tasked with presenting the President with all information...but inexplicably failed to include any reference to open source in the report. When asked about this omission--and possible steps to remedy (addendum etc)--Persily went silent.
No members of the Presidential Committee were responsive...
In California--which is the frontline of the battle for open source voting systems in the USA--the lobbyist for the California Association of Clerks and Elected Officials Barry Brokaw is also the lobbyist for Microsoft
Original Submission
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday June 15 2015, @03:50PM
The information is out there. It is presented from many points of view, and it's available to anyone who cares to look at it. Mainstream Media doesn't even bother trying to squash the information, because people just don't look.
http://original.livestream.com/freedomtv [livestream.com]
https://www.freespeech.org/ [freespeech.org]
http://www.projectcensored.org/ [projectcensored.org]
http://oathkeepers.net/ [oathkeepers.net]
I can continue for awhile, without even hitting any of the crazy conspiracy sites. There are sites out there, presenting their versions of the truth. I don't believe that ANY site has "THE TRUTH" - there is no messiah to deliver us, there is no charismatic leader, there is no organization with all the secrets. But, there are plenty of people who offer truth, who offer parts of the truth.
But, the masses are so interested in Hollyweird's extravaganzas, they don't have time to even think about real life.
Visit Youtube, and search for videos of polls. It's downright embarrasing, I swear that these people are more closely related to monkeys than any sapient race . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZZpk_9k8E [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Monday June 15 2015, @04:25PM
Well somehow Snowden managed to hit a lot of headlines. I don't know how it is in the US, but in UK it is a pretty big deal - still hitting top headlines every now and then. You probably need a reportable event that you can put in front of the media, even if it is just a report being issued or something. Maybe need to get some comment from a respected international organisation like those mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_monitoring [wikipedia.org]
Talking to the folks being elected may help also. They probably don't care if they can rig the votes, they might be more worried if The Other Side can rig the votes...
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday June 15 2015, @04:59PM
Yep, this is it. If any nationwide attention is to be brought to this, it's gonna be muh Snowden and muh government spying and manipulating.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that the NSA or other rogue elements within the government were already electronically manipulating votes, although the way the corporate Jew media is doing it should already be considered criminal. And there's not much we can do until we have proof.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 15 2015, @05:20PM
Visit Youtube, and search for videos of polls. It's downright embarrasing, I swear that these people are more closely related to monkeys than any sapient race . . .
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The problem with these sorts of videos is that they usually only show the people who make fools of themselves. I have no doubt a lot of people are morons, but these sorts of things don't show the whole picture.