Thinking that the WI election was "rigged" sets the stage for losing.

[snot]

2. I appreciate this post. It would help, however,

if I could see more facts about the percentage of voting or tabulation machines that were electronic, who owned and/or had access to them, whether election monitors were focussed on the hazards of electronic voting/tabulation, and the nature of the discrepancies between the exit polls and the reported voting results.

I do believe electronic fraud has occurred in elections past, and by now there've been multiple opportunities to practice making it look plausible; and there was a lot at stake in this election.

I realize I may be seeing so little on the subject 'cuz the evidence just isn't there; but I'd feel a lot better if I knew the monitors were looking for it and knew what to look for.

(See. e.g., this March 5 item:

US E-Voting System Cracked in Less than 48 Hours

Researchers at the University of Michigan have reported that . . . . "Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server", the researchers wrote in a paper that has now been released. "We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot." The hack was only discovered after about two business days – and most likely only because the intruders left a visible trail on purpose.

More at http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/US-e-voting-system-cracked-in-less-than-48-hours-1463881.html .

See also http://www.democraticunderground.com/125142744 . And if you don't know who Kathy Nickolaus is, see http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002767805 .)