Nixonian dirty tricks don't need to be as high tech with voting machines. You can just shut down the Democratic phone lines on election day in key states:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/121605O.shtml
Quote:
Jurors Return Mixed Phone-Jamming Verdict
The Associated Press
Thursday 15 December 2005
A former top Republican Party official was convicted on telephone harassment charges Thursday for his part in a plot to jam the Democrats' phones on Election Day 2002.
The federal jury acquitted James Tobin of the most serious charge against him, of conspiring to violate voters' rights.
Tobin, 45, of Bangor, Maine, was President Bush's New England campaign chairman last year. He could get up seven years in prison and $500,000 in fines when he is sentenced in March.
For nearly two hours on Election Day 2002, hundreds of hang-up calls overwhelmed Democratic get-out-the-vote phone banks in New Hampshire and a ride-to-the-polls line run by Manchester's firefighters union.
Tobin, who at the time was New England chairman of Bush's re-election campaign and a top regional official of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, was accused of orchestrating the phone-jamming.
The former executive director of the New Hampshire GOP, Chuck McGee, who admitted coming up with the idea, served a seven-month sentence for conspiracy.
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Some "mandate", if you need to resort to these measures to insure just enough votes. The Ohio electronic voting discrepancies are not getting the press it deserves.