The issue of voting enfranchisement and how votes are counted in American elections came to the forefront in the 2000 election. Since that time, a scattered, determined group of advocates have fought for transparency in voting machines and for opposing Republican efforts to suppress Democratic votes.

The latter efforts by the GOP has taken place on a variety of fronts (including "caging lists," voter ID laws, phone jamming, voter intimidation at the polls, etc.). In fact, this "rig the vote" scheme was integrally related to a large part of the DOJ ProsecutorGate scandal. (One of the ironic techniques to bolster the call for state legislative voter ID laws was to have partisan Bush U.S. Attorneys indict Democrats for non-existent voter fraud, while ignoring large-scale Republican voter malfeasance.)

BuzzFlash has reported regularly and posted articles on the long-term Republican effort to steal elections through a combination of "proprietary" electronic voting machines and the multi-faceted suppression of Democratic votes.

It is often a difficult topic for readers to follow, because it has so many facets -- and the electronic voting machine issue often gets bogged down in technicalities. Furthermore, advocates have branched off into different camps in so far as rallying around one solution to the electronic voting machine issue.

Frankly, as far as the latter is concerned, BuzzFlash advocates for completely transparent electronic voting machines owned by the public, without any proprietary software. Furthermore, paper ballots should be issued, initialed by the voter, and dropped in a box, so if there is a recount required, the paper ballots can be counted and not the electronic tabulation.

This is more or less the process championed by the late Athan Gibbs, featured in "Uncounted," who invented a voting system called "TruVote."

Suffice it to say, we were mightily impressed with how clear and understandable the just released "Uncounted" makes the problem of the widespread GOP effort to steal elections. It's a difficult subject to put your arms around, but "Uncounted" succeeds by making a lucid and compelling case that democracy is at risk when the very process of voting is under assault.