Reply #27: Gambit blowback

[PATRICK]

Take it one issue at a time. The fraud failed and the probability of Dems controlling everything increases- without their actually repudiating these touchscreen bandits. Ironically this is likely more scary than the Dems being determined to oust the machines.

The new Dem Congress reforms will make HAVA work and take down the machines anyway. Money lost and time will not allow for other types of rigging or a return to "traditions".

This hunkering down means the temporary defeat and too quiet burying of tools that would have been great- had the GOP won last year.

So, as a reform victory it would be decisive but not absolute. No past fraud has been uncovered, admitted or redressed. Future implementation therefore with cleverer, less ambitious schemes will sneak in again if the sweeping principles of the best reformers are not universally legislated.

As to who controls the fraud and how well or daring or how favor-bought, that is the burning dissatisfaction even among the staunchest toadies of those self-chosen few.