Sorry I'm not up there in the rarified intellectual stratosphere with you, where you think that because the president of a voting machine company supports Bush that somehow he's going to put the "fix" into thousands of machines in thousands of precincts.

I understand that the Democratic Party's favorite technique in challenging elections now is to destroy the confidence of citizens in the voting process. I also understand that Democrats are going to need a whole list of excuses if they lose this election, and that the "voting machine ripoff" is going to be a favorite target among less-educated Democrats. With any luck, they will succeed again in pulling an election away from the voters and putting it into the hands of the courts, where God fights on the side of the best lawyers and it doesn't matter what the count was. But, that's November.

I'm surprised that such a subtle person as yourself was unaware that Diebold machines run Microsoft software, so that it's just as plausible in your paranoid world that Gates could put the "fix" in for Democrats as easily as Dell could for Republicans.