You Do Realize They Probably Changed The Election Results

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155. A family member of mine does hi-tech stuff for DARPA

In 2002--FIFTEEN YEARS AGO--when the electronic voting machines were first instituted (and the Republicans started scoring "surprise upset victories" as soon as they were used, e.g. Max Cleland's defeat in the Georgia Senate) my brother told me, "give me a laptop and a cell phone, and I'll make any of those voting machines give you any result you desire." You can imagine how sophisticated they must have gotten at it in the meantime.

IN 2004, Diebold went to court to sue, successfully, to have their voting machines declared "private property," and could only be forensically examined with permission from the owners--something they never granted. In the deciding state of Ohio in 2004, where the Ohio Secretary of State was also the Bush campaign chairman, the head of Diebold said he would "deliver Ohio for Bush," something he apparently accomplished. In Ohio, ONE--count 'em, ONE--of the electronic voting machines was forensically examined before its owners could come to cart it off. It was in an out-of-the-way precinct with just 600 registered voters. The voting machine gave Bush 3000 votes in the precinct with 600 registered voters. The Republicans called it a "glitch," deducted 2400 votes from Bush's "margin of victory" in Ohio, and STILL refused to let ANY of the other machines' hard drives to be subjected to forensic examination.

If there's anyone left out there who DOESN'T get what these machines are about, then I can't help you. If the results are overwhelming in one direction (e.g. Obama in 2008 and 2012) they either can't or won't get so blatant as to tip their hand, but if they can get away with stealing an election, I'd say there is strong evidence they will, and not give it a second thought.

Top Republican strategists are not total morons. They know that in a fairly held election, they lose. Their morals are just a little loose on the subject of what they think is a legitimate way around that fact.