What's Really Going on in South Carolina 1/2

Bev Harris talks to Alex about the increased potential for vote fraud as privately owned corporations consolidate and move toward internet voting. Harris is a writer, activist, and founder of Black Box Voting Inc., a national nonpartisan, nonprofit elections watchdog group. She is the author of Black Box Voting and her investigative journalism has appeared in both the alternative and mainstream media. http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ http://www.infowars.com/ http://www.prisonplanet.tv/

New Hampshire will produce an anointed candidate who will "do better than expected" to become "inevitable." Some of the other frontrunners will be hammered down firmly with "worse than expected"; all week long before South Carolina we will get treated to a persuasive TV pundit parade telling us what we should think.

It's only gotten worse since 1988, when author Joan Didion wrote: "...those inside the process had congealed into a permanent political class, the defining characteristic of which was its readiness to abandon those not inside the process." (Political Fictions)

In South Carolina (where, as you may recall, the paperless ES&S iVotronic touchscreens gave us Alvin Greene in the 2010 Democratic primary), the counting process is not only entirely concealed, but the original record -- the voters own verified ballot -- is unrecoverable, and chain of custody on the count is unascertainable. By the way, it also violate the South Carolina constitution to conceal the vote counting process from the public