Anonymous did not stop Rove from stealing the election.

[BlueStreak]

110. He didn't think he needed to in FL and VA

We saw what they did in FL with those obscene lines. Rove likely would have assumed that was sufficient. I don't think any of us really believes that so many brothers and sisters would stand in line for 5-10 hours to vote. This had to come as s complete shock to Rove. And VA was close. Again, Rove could have assumed that was close enough to win if their fancy GOTV software would have worked.

But Ohio was absolutely not close enough to win with the standard voter suppression stuff Husted threw out there. The only way to win Ohio would be election system tampering.

Forget Anonymous. Until they show some evidence, I would not take that theory seriously. But that doesn't change the most important facts:

1) There is a PROVEN recent history of election system tampering in Ohio, showing pervasive, systematic manipulation of results, always in favor of Republicans

2) There is a SoS in place that has been extremely aggressive this year in erecting barriers to voting in Democratic-leaning counties

3) There is a highly suspicious collection of products supplied by ESS, which itself has a history of voting irregularities, again favoring Republicans. These machines are ideally placed in the system to flip vote totals after they leave the precincts. Husted broke the law by installing untested software on 39 of these just weeks before the election.

Anybody who doesn't think there was an intent to steal this election by any available means is nuts. And anybody who doesn't believe KKKarl was heavily involved in that just doesn't have any useful reasoning powers.

What stopped them?

a) We don't know that they were completely prevented from vote flipping. We don't know that they were stopped. We only know that if they did execute a vote flipping plan, it wasn't enough to overcome our lead.

b) We know that there were thousands of lawyers on the scene, unlike the past years when Ohio rigged their elections. And we know that Husted's role was very sharply in the spotlight, aggressively taking him to court on each of his suppression and rigging attempts, including the ESS software. Husted knew that he actions were being watched very closely.

c) Husted decided to go home at about 10PM on election night, just about the time of Rove's famous meltdown. This was just after it became clear that Husted could commit election felonies likely putting him in prison, and it would still not give the election to Romney

What stopped them was the spotlight and the victories in FL, VA, IA, WI, PA, NV, and CO. Husted simply decided he didn't want to go to prison. It really isn't complicated.

And for those who still want to maintain there was no plot afoot, then why did the Obama campaign put so many lawyers on the ground in Ohio?