On Oct 17, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
Whoa -
Do you think the Republicans are not out to steal the election if
they could?
Why them and not the Dems?
In this case, the owner of Diebold was a strong supporter of the
Republicans. This requires the Democrats to use other methods because
their people did not built the machines.
I do not think either party has a monopoly on dishonesty or dirty
tricks.
No, but the Republicans have shown a greater tendency to use such
tricks in recent times because they could get away with doing this.
The issue is not who is more honest, because both parties are equally
corrupt. The issue is what will happen during this election. The
Republicans are still operating under the moral principles of Carl
Rove, which makes them more likely to go dirty.
Now that the machine has been reversed engineered, etc. and done so
at Universities - (where there is a decided liberal bias) I would
actually suspect that it would be far more likely that the bad-
apples among young Dems would try to steal votes -
Perhaps
... and might even use the "assumption" that Diebold was possibly at
blame in Ohio, years ago for the other side to either get revenge or
to play a kind of sneaky double-cross.
Now we are talking about karma.
Ed
I know lots of IT professionals and programmers, and can say
absolutely and without question that most of them are strongly for
Obama in this state. The boss may be for McCain, or the guy who
signs the checks, and that creates an unusual situation.
This may not be true elsewhere, but an election official who allowed
the memory card in a machine to be switched, even if it was supposed
to benefit his choice - could never really know who it might favor
in the end .
