Reply #62: Do Foo Bar a favor

[mgr]

And don't combine his concerns with how the election was stolen with mine. I think that our interactions only extend to a few linked posts. Our interests may intersect, but we have never PM'ed each other.

You are arguing by exhortation. Explain how my position is bunk, refute me; don't consider it an argument by adumbrating to all the specious work you have done.

Take a look at the database, where did I get the numbers for Palm Beach, Mahoning? What are the total machine malfunction records for these places? Is it that they were intentionally set to flip votes, or did they malfunction due to incompetence on the part of the programmer or design engineer, but that since the BOE was unable to address widespread failures or slowdowns, lines grew and people walked away without voting? That constitutes suppression, and if these problems were known and not remedied, approximates fraud. In Ohio and Florida it appears where the dems are, and is more than sufficient an explanation for how Kerry won but did not--it might even capture the precious popular vote frame that you hunger after.

As a software designer you seem unwilling to make the simple assumption that those in charge of maintaining the touchscreen equipment may have been incompetent. Why is that (I am not insinuating anything that you may have been a programmer for Diebold or ESS--but am asking in the broader context of what may be your own bias as you are a practitioner in the profession)?

I have already stated before that working as a computer operator and part time programmer, that many programmers that I worked around would make collossal coding errors, that I would spend hours patching. Its the same in all professional fields, the competence is malleable.

Mike