Reply #144: Two Different Questions..

[devarsi]

Some folks seem to be looking at the thread's question as if it were asking for a verdict on whether election fraud has already happened. If that were the question, then I can see the need for solid evidence that a vote was changed, etc...

But that is not the question, as I read it:

Some DUers have poo-pooed the idea that the voting machines
might be rigged. Which of the following would change your mind...

The question that is really being asked is whether you trust these machines to accurately count your votes in future elections.

That's where a simple (and previously given) analogy can clear things right up.

To the point, would you put your business and life savings in a bank if you had some reason to suspect that the vault may not be safe from unauthorized entry, if the bank neither sent you a monthly statement of your account, nor even kept such a record, if the bank officials were your direct business competitors and swould stand to profit if you lost money, and if the bank refused to be subject to normal third party oversight?

Or would you trust this hypothetical and potentially enimical bank with your entire financial future?

It really doesn't matter if you think the vote machines worked yesterday (well, ok it does matter, but not for the sake of this conversation). I want to know if you trust them to work tomorrow.