Election fraud

We haven't been covering the issue as we ought, but Brad Friedman continues to demonstrate his commanding knowledge of the topic. In a nutshell, here's what's going on: Compu-vote "glitches" keep appearing in election after election. These "glitches" receive local news coverage. Few people put together the big picture.

In Pennsylvania, election authorites discovered a "security vulnerability" that could allow "unauthorized software to be loaded on to the system." Friedman's source says the problem amounts to nothing less than a "major national security risk."

Get this: The same machines were used in Ohio last Tuesday.

And California Secretary of State Bruce McPhereson still insists on using Diebold machines -- even though independent analysts found a whole family of dangerous bugs nesting in the software.

Meanwhile, ESS machines have been failing spectacularly in state after state -- Indiana, Oregon, Texas, West Virginia, Arkansas and Missouri.

Elsewhere, Bev Harris describes the situation in Utah, where Emery County Elections director Bruce Funk found a bug in the same Diebold Machines noted above.

The state of Utah has known that a critical security risk exists in its Diebold TSx touch-screens, but chose to punish the courageous public official responsible for identifying the defect instead of taking any efforts to learn what the problem is and correct it.