The 2014 US Elections Manipulated?

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49. Their reason is the same as those Pols who will not question the events leading to 9/11.

Many of them are afraid that to ask such questions implies the system is broken, perhaps as broken as those who fear it truly is have been saying. They cannot entertain the idea of some meaningful level of interference in voting processes. It is not in their political DNA to allow doubt of the system on such a scale.

They are not stupid as such but they have significant blind spots. That is according to my good friend who has testified in committee hearings on internet security and encryption. He said that there are some very intelligent people who cannot somehow see problems in front of their own noses...even when those problems are laid out clearly on a level the average TV audience could not ignore. He said it was a stunning and sobering revelation to realize that they simply could not acknowledge the degree of the problems or the potential impact. This was outside of any comment by those representatives who had a contrary agenda.

He said it was almost as if they were blinded by some religious level of belief that made it impossible for them to hear the simple truth...as if it had not been spoken out loud.

I have seen the same kind of thing during testimony that shaped the law we have regulating electronic voting in North Carolina. Intelligent responsible people who could not grasp the real possibilities of interference: eg. How simple and easy it is to do on some systems, and how to hide it. The strategies of misdirection, the levels of intervention that are possible, How few people it takes to do it, etc.

During WWII many people did not believe stories that thousands upon thousands of Jews, Gypsies and many others were being systematically murdered by the SS. The often repeated remark was that it simply could not be true. No civilized nation would allow it nor pursue large scale genocide as political policy. Post-war many continued their disbelief even after the Nazi's own films of these events were shown. The idea that civil law could be perverted on such a scale was one of their reasons to argue that it could not be true.

I know how some of the systems can be adjusted. I have seen the evidence and talked to the system engineers about back doors to the servers and to the internet itself. It is possible, and most likely has happened more often than we could ever prove...simply because it really is just that easy to do it if you have the skills, the access, and most importantly the political will to do it. Have no doubt that those who can distort the election system to suit their purposes will do so. They have never avoided the opportunity before.

It has been said elsewhere regarding other topics: If it walks like a duck and it talks like a duck, you'd better start re-counting your chickens.