Al Gore in 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want To Read, by Jesse Ventura

On Principles & Values: FL 2000: electronic voting machines subtracted 16,022 votes

On election night 2000, a computer "error" made it look like Gore had lost Florida--and prompted the media to announce prematurely that Bush was the winner. This happened in Volusia County, where an electronic voting machine company called Global Electio Systems (GES) was tabulating things. GES turns out to have been run by Republicans who were only too eager to see Bush take over. All of the sudden that night 16,022 votes for Gore got subtracted from his total in Volusia County. It wasn't until 2003, when a bunch of internal GES memos got leaked, that it became clear company officials knew all about this at the time.

I cry out to stop the electronic ballots, because any computer can be hacked into, as evidence shows. I say, stick with handwritten ballots. If you can't fill in the blank circle with a pencil, then you shouldn't be voting because we've been doing that since the first grade! Maybe the ballots still need to be hand-counted, but at least you'd have a paper trail.

Source: 63 Documents, by Gov. Jesse Ventura, p.180 Apr 4, 2011

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