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Reply #8: Maybe. But (a) it's educating people and (b) I don't want to wait til November.
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Tue Jan-15-08 04:53 PM
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8. Maybe. But (a) it's educating people and (b) I don't want to wait til November. |
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(a) Distrust of machine votes was a fringe conspiracy-nut idea in 2005. Now it is widely considered possible that machine votes are unreliable. Even long-standing and influential skeptic Farhad Manjoo of Salon has (kind of) come around.
(b) Every time there is a divergence between pre-election polls, exit polls, and actual results -- and machines are involved -- I intend to make some noise. Get people looking at the election process. Maybe it can be fixed. My greatest fear is that the November 2008 election for president is one that no-one has any confidence in. Recession + Global Warming + Election Uncertainty = ?????.
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