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Originally Posted by Ustwo
ratbastid considering you think that the Flroida ballot was somehow fraud despite it being a democrat designed ballot in a democrat county, I don't know how anyone could convince you that this wasn't just a mistake either.
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Actually, I do think the Florida ballot was a mistake. It was a harmful mistake that quite possibly gave the presidency to the wrong candidate. (Either that or Palm Beach County has a HELL of a lot of Pat Buchanan fans!) But a mistake.
I'm not so generous in my view of Diebold and their "built-to-be-hacked" voting machines. Nobody has successfully demonstrated to me why a voting machine can't be secure, or why it can't include a voter-verifiable paper trail. Nobody has successfully demonstrated why a corporation whose CEO declared his commitment to "deliver Ohio for the President" should be trusted with our voting infrastructure.
If the 2004 election had taken place in a third world country under the eye of international observers, it would have been thrown out. How can this not be a major concern? Here's how: the errors almost universally benefit the (current) majority party.