It's a topic that's so hot it has been banned even from some so-called liberal blogs. But our democracy suffers as long as election fraud, intimidation, harrassment and, yes, use of hackable voting machines with mysterious secret code that election officials aren't even allowed to inspect are used to count our votes.

Elections are as easy to rig as it is for me to go in and edit this blog post. This isn't tinfoil hat stuff -- district after district has documented voting irregularities. This isn't a partisan issue. Shouldn't elections elect those who actually won?

Don't we deserve better?

Read the petition, and sign it if you agree.

Meanwhile, some thoughts from Media in Trouble:

HR550 is a good bill. It addresses many issues but most importantly it forces random audits of all elections, and a voter verified paper trail to each and every vote. This resolves and would have resolved most of the issues brought up in Ohio 2004 and Florida 2000 and every other wierd ass election in between. More importantly, it has 150+ co-sponsors and is being held up by Republicans in committee.

Instead of the left swarming the shit out of this issue, you get more muckraking. Big bloggers who could easily blog this don't pick up on this. Big bloggers who are actively engaged in the issue don't pick up on this.

Its a gaddamned shame. Instead of raking muck, there is a real opportunity to make policy happen to fix all the muck you are raking.

The time for muckraking is over, or if it isn't then keep muckracking, but as you are muckraking, put a link to the frekin petition in every post, this way you rile up the folks, and give them an option to do something about it.

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