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This article responds to the damaging attempts by left-wing journalists to deny the possibility of right-wing electronic vote tampering – or any e-vote tampering – particularly in the 2012 election.

In the past week, Chuck Todd at MSNBC News has Tweeted that concerns about electronic voting machines are “conspiracy theory that belong in the same category as the Trump birther garbage.”

ThinkProgress, the left-wing advocacy and news site, posted an article with the same blanket “conspiracy theory” dismissal.

And finally, Steven Rosenfeld wrote a similar opinion piece – posted by Alternet (as “news” no less) and then picked up by Salon and Snopes – to further “debunk” concerns about stolen elections. 

What are these journalists railing against? A flood of recent stories warning of the potential for massive computerized election fraud in the 2012 elections.

In particular, the breaking news of the Romney family’s financial ties to voting machine company Hart Intercivic, exposed by the FreePress.org, is so alarming that it’s been picked up by many online news sources, and even Forbes Magazine.

My 7000 word cover story in this month’s Harper’s Magazine, “How to Rig an Election” exposes the fundamental security flaws in our current voting system, including the right-wing partisan ownership of major voting machine companies. I also discuss many suspicious “surprise upset” elections that have helped tipped the balance of power in America toward the far-right. The piece has been positively reviewed in The Atlantic, Esquire, the Daily Kos and elsewhere.

Radio interview requests are coming to me now from Canada to New Zealand. Why? Because the results of American elections, particularly in 2012, have life-or-death global implications, from war in the Middle East, to climate change negotiations. The whole world is watching with great concern, even as international election observers are being blocked from entering polls in Ohio and other states.