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In reply to the discussion: Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it [View all]ljm2002
(10,751 posts)...yes we all know ORCA was GOTV software. So stipulated... as I did in an earlier post. Your need to belabor this point demonstrates just how shoddy your argument is, since we have NO, ZIP, ZERO disagreement about the purpose of the ORCA software.
That said, ORCA did fail on election day as a matter of public record. So if Anonymous had anything to do with that, it makes sense they would brag about it. That's ALL I am saying.
Furthermore it is certainly possible that they had nothing to do with the ORCA failure nor with preventing vote rigging, and that their purported letter is a bit of after-the-fact revisionist chest-beating.
You of course have stated that you dismiss their involvement out-of-hand. Fine, you are welcome to do so. What I am not okay with is your disagreeableness in doing so, and your need to call names and question the integrity and/or knowledge of those who may disagree with you. You can shout "I'm RIGHT" all day long, doesn't make it so.
We may never know anyway. And that really is the take-home lesson here: whatever Anonymous may or may not have done, as long as we have electronic voting machines and electronically-tabulated results, we can never be certain about the results.
There has always been vote tampering, but making our votes electronic enables it on a grand scale and without traceability. I find that more than a little disconcerting.