That's interesting. I just read an article about a guy who was convicted
and served time for "throwing elections." He was asked about what is
currently going on, and he said it's a "classic" way of throwing elections,
i.e., keep requesting recounts until the "appropriate" number of votes are
"found." After all, the more ballots are handled, the more, dimpled,
pimpled, swinging, hanging and otherwise imperfected chads fall out...
>From: "Deb Messling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: "Deb Messling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Joni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: NJC From Janis Joplin list/election
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 19:33:10 -0500
>
> > A really good crook does not make their chicanery so obvious. A really
> > expert crook sets it up to look like the other guy did it.
>
>Point one: words like "crook" are unnecessarily inflammatory, and bound to
>inspire nasty retorts.
>
>Point two: I'd love to see, in detail please, exactly what you think the
>Gore campaign set up and how they did it.
>
>I just read a fascinating 1988 New Yorker article which described how easy
>it would be to steal votes in elections that use punch ballots. The
>experts
>quoted in that article endorsed hand counts as an antidote to computer
>fraud. Hauntingly, the article stated that a presidential candidate
>probably could not manipulate the popular vote via computer, but that in a
>close election he could certainly manipulate the electoral vote.
>
>
>
>Deb Messling
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