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In reply to the discussion: Some thoughts on Anon and hacking and all that (as well as the culture) [View all]reusrename
(1,716 posts)There are several folks that keep mocking others about the electronic vote flipping. I find the behavior abhorrent, mainly because I deeply believe in the voice of the people, as expressed at the polls. I do wish some folks would at least respect the voting process itself enough to refrain from the mocking behavior.
We see this kind of thing a lot, people who have no understanding of science mocking those who do understand it. It's different in this case, at least to me it is. Voting is something I try to hold sacred, so this crap is unusually offensive to me in this partcular case. I'm also suspicious at what look to me like repeated intentional attempts to cloud and confuse the issues. I do understand that some good people are just a little bit stoopid, and that as such they may not be able to comprehend my feelings about this, even after I've repeated myself several tmes.
No one who understands the facts of 2012 has any doubt that votes were electronically flipped during the Republican primaries in order to eliminate each front runner, one by one, and secure the nomination for Gov. Romney.
For some reason, the vote in the general election was not electronically flipped to Romney. These are just the facts.
An additional fact: the pollsters who correctly predicted the electronically flipped races in the primary were also predicting a Romney win in the general.
Whether Anonymous had anything to do with this outcome is a legitimate question for speculation. We shouldn't conflate speculation about Anonymous in the general election with actual facts of electronic vote flipping in primary. One is speculation, the other is well-documented history.