Will all future elections be stolen?

Bush stole the last election largely as a result of problems with the new "chad" voting systems in his brother Jeb's Florida electorate. For the 2004 election, these systems and others are being replaced with electronic voting systems using encryption technology. Anyone who works in IT will be horrified at the implications for abuse of such a system.

Firstly, the wrong guy could win the election because of a software error. Even the best software has bugs - just ask Bill Gates, whose Windows systems are riddled with security flaws. But that's not the worst of it...

With the whole voting process handed over to private companies in G.W.Bush & Co's corporate state, there are two critically important questions: who is making the software and who is testing the software? These people effectively control the US electoral process.

Turns out the people who are making the software are mostly Republicans, many with very close links to G.W.Bush.

Turns out the testing is secret. Certification officials refuse to say what tests they do.

Are you horrified by the implications of all this? Or do you just feel powerless and disenfranchised? Knowledge is power - read about it at BuzzFlash now.