Here is what really determines who controls the U.S. government, not money or voters. Study after study—from Princeton, to Johns Hopkins, to NYU’s Brennan Center, to the California Secretary of State’s office, to the GAO itself—conclude that use of electronic voting machines is obscenely vulnerable to insider manipulation and outsider hacking. So have many studies examining computerized voting abroad—which is why countries such as Germany, Ireland, and Holland have begun turning back to human counted ballots. There is consensus verging on unanimity among the experts. The best example is Alvin Greene in South Carolina, an unknown black man who did not campaign, beating a well known state senator by 30% points in the democratic primary and then getting beat by 40% by Jim Demint, U.S. senat



