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Today's lead stories:
Hacking Democracy
July 4th Special Documentary--Hacking Democracy
In the aftermath of the Florida debacle, as unearthed by
Investigative journalist Greg
Palast, FSRN correspondent Geoff Brady follows through
and takes a look at the next generation of digital voting
machines slated to come to a voting booth near you for the
2004 Presidential elections. Will this technology resolve
the fundamental issues of voter fraud and civil rights violations
that the infamous butterfly ballots bore on voters around
the country?
Last year, in the wake of the 2000 Presidential election
debacle in Florida, Congress enacted the "Help America
Vote Act." An electoral reform law that has started to
allocate nearly 4 billion dollars in federal funds designed
to strengthen voting systems across the fifty US states. Among
significant changes are the mass purchases of computerized
touch screen voting machines manufactured by a handful of
private companies and the centralization of state voter registration
lists. So far the transformations have been complicated and
wrought with error in Georgia and Florida. In California debates
have boiled over as election activists demand paper trails
on new electronic machines. At the heart of some issues, a
specter of voter fraud and security issues loom over proprietary
software that program the machines made by private vendors.
As states begin the transformation process, a small but informed
grassroots effort has surfaced to bring awareness to election
boards across the country. This special report was produced
by Geoff Brady.
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