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...member of a group that's been in the headlines lately, would you care to speak up for vote-fraud perpetrators - sorry, I meant community organizers...
Since the country's colonial days, concerns of voter fraud have inspired ever-more complicated ways to cast one's ballot. Depending on where you live, you may vote tomorrow with a lever, a punch card, a marker or a touchscreen. As election scholar Andrew Gumbel notes, the U.S. has been both a "living experiment in the expansion of democratic rights" and a "world-class laboratory for vote suppression and election-stealing techniques...
...black ball indicated a "No" vote in ancient Greece). Early American ballots, on the other hand, mostly came in the form of one's voice. Men simply shouted their choice in public, a process known as vica voce. Though it alleviated concerns of illiteracy, the method encouraged intimidation and fraud. One of the most common forms of manipulation involved plying voters with free booze. Even Thomas Jefferson let his campaign dispense liquor on Election Day, explaining that rum, wine, brandy and beer merely rewarded the "People" (read: white, property-owning males) for their time and patience...
...Three main companies dominate the voting-machine market today: Election Systems & Software (ES&S), Sequoia Voting Systems, and Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems), all of which have been accused of facilitating - or participating in - fraud. Diebold renamed itself in 2007 following the resignation of its chief executive, Walden O'Dell, over a fund-raising letter sent before the 2004 election stating that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President...
...good thing Jolie’s performance is so solid, because she carries most of the weight of the film. The accompanying cast includes John Malkovich, who plays Gustav Briegleb, a Presbyterian reverend who has made it his life goal to expose the LAPD for the fraud it is, and Jeffery Donovan as the unscrupulous J.J. Jones, captain of the LAPD juvenile investigation unit. Despite their roots in a true story, both characters seem flat. Briegleb, with a single-mindedness that is more annoying than inspiring, pops up every once in a while to warn Christine of the LAPD?...