If it can be tampered with, it _will_ be tampered with. After all, there's power at stake. And no crime is too sordid nor too banal to be committed for power. Not in this country, certainly.
As for tampering being done mainly on the local level -- well, of course. But an elected and partisan county clerk who can "deliver the goods" to the statehouse or sec of state will be rewarded. And the governor or secretary of state who can promise or deliver certain counties or precincts will also be rewarded by the national players.
All politics is local, they say; and national corruption means local corruption in federal elections, as the national players promise money and favor to the state players, who in turn pass along preferences and money to the local players.
It's "machine" politics pure and simple: pun intended, and it will happen whenever there are no checks. Thinking otherwise, or thinking that this problem is purely local, is willful blindness at best.
Last edited by Rodney; 11-28-2005 at 04:26 PM..
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