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can anybody that knows anything about the issue give me some sort of scenario, or provide a link to anything explaining how, if the switch to electornic voter machines takes place, we are not completely and utterly fucked in 2004? because from everything i have read it seems like we are, but i know that my brain tends to work in a closed-system kind of way sometimes, where it's hard for me to imagine new information that is not derived from premises i understand all too well. so, is there any point to the DNC and campaigning and all that stuff? so, if someone can provide the information, i want to know
a) if there are any things that i am not taking into consideration in my completely pessimisitc imaginary of what will happen
and
b) what can be done about it? i know there are lawsuits, and i know there is a lot of awareness about it, at least in progressive/democratic circles, but are there any campaigns? grassroots movements? any checks or appeals procedure that circumnavigates our own personal matrix?