text: Most of the machines around our country, including my state, (I just got done voting on 1 of them) are made by Diebold, which has a monopoly on voting machines.\n\nhttp://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/\n\nAs for watchdog groups, there are so many of them for both parties that they kind of cancel each out and just make the elections more complicated, but I guess having them screw up the elections a little bit is better than having outright voter fraud by 1 or both parties.\n\nIf you are hoping for any non-partisan voting rights groups to protect the integrity of the voting system in place, forget about it, there is just too much corruption and politics involved these days to have a clean election.\n\nRecent studies and stats by polling companies bear out this fact.