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If the Diebold Company were run by a bunch of left wingers and their CEO vowed publicly that the Democrats were going to win an upcoming election in your home state, and the election did result in a narrow and critical win, would there be any suspicion by you about the very secretive software code and the lack of a paper trail for validation?

Would you just go on being satisfied with even the slightest bit of doubt of validity in your mind if your guy lost when the expectations were rather high that he'd win?

I'm firmly convinced that there were irregularities in the Kerry/Bush vote especially in Ohio and that it's very possible the Republicans cheated their way to the win. A whole lot of Americans seem to feel the same way.

Now, if that's true and of course there is by design no way to definitively prove it, basic human nature tells us that the Republicans, bouyed by their success in one election, would've done the same thing whenever future opportunities presented themselves. They would've be cognizant that people were watching them intently but, with no verifiable paper trail, they simply couldn't have been caught and didn't even have to be particularly careful if they centered their strategy on the Diebold machines.

I think they knew though that unless they applied their tactics evenly over the entire country, they couldn't cheat much in each precinct or it'd be obvious something was amiss. They could only alter vote totals by small amounts in each area to make it appear natural, a strategy that works in close elections only. A huge opposition turnout rendered the tactic ineffective as far as we can tell but we'll never know. There were Republicans that won close contests where electronic machines were used. Whether they cheated their way to the win we'll not know unless some whistle-blower comes forward.

I know you don't buy a lick of this but it fits perfectly the cast involved and their behavior patterns. Here's something for you to chew on though as you dismiss this rant. In my opinion both Kerry and Gore, regardless of the dirty tactics that may have been employed against them, deserved to get their butts kicked. In both cases, they had their political futures handed to them by the gift the Republicans gave in choosing such an easy target as their opponent. They both allowed their handlers to reshape their images instead of standing up strongly for what was right. I have no sympathy for the political plight of either of those boneheads. Had they run effective campaigns and not been weenies, the alleged voting improprieties wouldn't have mattered a lick. I do have sympathy though for the American public. We're the ones that were cheated on.

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