William O. Douglas Quotes
When corruption enters, the election is no longer free, the choice of the people is affected.
William O. Douglas, 1898-1980, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Chairman, Security & Exchange Commission, United States v. Classic, 1940
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Comment on the Election of President Putin.
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At the turn of the century, there was a moral norm in much of the country that buying and stealing votes in elections were not moral transgressions and was acceptable in the heat of political contests.
They were voting on ignoring the fraudulent vote count in Dallas County, Alabama. The counter argument was that it would disenfranchise those honest voters of the country whose votes would not then be counted.
Brat, a college professor, had never run for any political office before. His opponent, Eric Cantor, outspent him by a ratio of nearly 25 to 1. Cantor spent more on steak dinners than Brat spent in total for his whole campaign.
Zt the time he made this statement, some Russians—probably with the blessing of the Russian government—had been hacking the e-mail computers of the Democratic National Committee and making embarrassing e-mails public through Wikileaks. Many Americans were concerned at the possibility that Russia, another nation, or a non-state group could hack into the voting machines and the computers that tally the votes. This statement was made to reassure them. There are 9000 different polling places where Americans can vote in a Presidential election. There is no single entity that anyone could hack to rig the vote counts. And there is no uniformity in the voting machines used, the tabulating and aggregating methods and machines, and the software that is used to tally the vote in cities, counties and states. And no voting machines are connected to the Internet.
Without a paper trail, there is no way to audit an election to prove that there ahs not been any tamering with the vote counting, the machines that do the counting or the processes of aggregating the results of all the machines in a state ort other election district. Without a hard copy paper trail, there is no way to be certain that some of the voting or aggregating machines had not been hacked and manipualted.
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William Orville Douglas was an American jurist and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Douglas was confirmed at the age of 40, one of the youngest justices appointed to the court. His term, lasting 36 years and 211 days (1939–75), is the longest in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, Time magazine called Douglas "the most doctrinaire and committed civil libertarian ever to sit on the court."
