For those that think voting machines can be compromised

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16. I suggest Karl Rove suggests to candidate creative ways to win an election

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Actual hacking can be done at a corporate level, either collectively by a small group of individuals, at the tabulating stage, at a maintenance stage or by anyone who has access. Which is easiest? To break into lots of buildings to access thousands of individual machines or to bribe hundreds of officials? Or perhaps, to add a file into the program centrally that will be installed in all machines, or a "software patch" for machines that are already out there?

I imagine that Karl Rove has a little chat with the chosen one - the man who would be king, long before the primaries and suggests how it can be done, never getting his own hands dirty. He might suggest that the easiest and safest thing to do is for a candidate's family member (example Bush's cousin or Romney's son) to invest heavily in a voting machine company, then install many of his own hand-picked bent executives (obviously Republicans), who are also personal friends.

Those executives should know what they need to do, or to be sure they could be explicitly told what they need to, or to avoid the candidate being personally involved in a conspiracy give them ambiguous direction, for example: "We hope you are able to successfully deliver results that will put the company in a position where there is confidence to continue our investment and allow the business to expand." They need one bent software guy who can write the code and add it to the program and one person who is responsible for software security to keep the dirty little secret from other employees.

In 2003, the chief executive of Diebold, based in Ohio, wrote a letter to wealthy Republicans asking for funds and stated: "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." This is by the same man counting the votes.

That Mitt Romney has followed the example of Bush, and there is pretty solid evidence the primaries were fixed for Romney to win makes it seem likely they are planning to steal this election if they are confident they will get away with it.