1. Why do "computer glitches" continually benefit Republicans?

[CatWoman]

2. Why is it that "computer glitches" never, ever, give "mistaken" votes to Democrats?

3. How is it that the Florida Secretary of State (Election 2000) simultaneously served as the head of Bush's Florida election campaign?

4. How is it that the Ohio Secretary of State (Election 2004) simultaneously serves as the head of Bush's Ohio reelection campaign?

5. Where was the outrage/concern about Jeb Bush's appointment of Glenda Hood as Katherine Harris' replacement as Florida Secretary of State?

6. What are the chances that Jeb Bush maintained a "hands off" approach in delivering Florida's electoral votes to his brother?

[bullimiami]

1. hmm. that sure is mysterious....................nt

[Nag Champa]

2. Some dude on TV said it was because God hates us.

God wanted us to invade Iraq.

Didn't you get the memo?

[xultar]

3. things that make u go hummmmmm!

[sui generis]

4. let's not beat around the Bush! They're lying, cheating

fuckwads.

Here's what differentiates "us" from "them" in the honesty test: If we had won by a landslide, but we knew it was because of cheating, would we be honest and ask for an honest recount or would we pull every dirty trick in the book to stay in charge?

I think we all know the answer, as painful as it might be.

[kuozzman]

5. Exactly, more....

Some questions raised in this:
http://trytodenythis.tripod.com/voteprivatization/

Why is Nevada often referred to as 100% verifiable voting machines, yet that is truly only for 16/17 of their counties.
The 17th? Clark=Las Vegas=Over 70% of their population!
Receipts in Clark County? Only in early voting!!!
COME ON!!! Talk about red flags!!!!

[Trahurn]

6. Try This Logic

The reason the republicans benefit from computer clitches is because it is the republicans themselves generating such glitches and always in their favor.

[Cleita]

7. Yes, those point do make one wonder about the biases.

Of course, if it's us doing the wondering, then we are conspiracy nuts. :shrug:

[CatWoman]

9. These are some things we need to keep in the back of our minds

and I'd like to hear the DU "naysayers" explain.

[aquart]

8. The head of campaign thing needs to be outlawed. Severely.

As for anything in Florida, none of our strategies should have included it. Only an idiot would think Jeb couldn't steal it twice.

[underpants]

10. Their followers easily buy "Ooh these big bad complicated machines.....

are oh so suffisticated and no one really knows what is going on with them" Ralph and Myrtle quietly nod back at the TV turned to Fox News.

[donkeyotay]

11. talk about the ends justifying the means

When the God-fearin Republicans declared war on America, they decided that the ends justified the means.

Too bad hate radio taught them to forget that the political process was not, as bitter as it might be, supposed to be a war.

Asshats! They declared war on America and destroyed her.

[Javaman]

12. Funny how that is, those darn crazy kookie machines...

The fix is in folks.

[wiggs]

13. NY Senate

In a story earlier this week that has all but disappeared, a manual recount of NY senate seat votes discovered that nearly ALL machines reported more votes for the republican on election day than were actually cast. Seals on several machines were missing or damaged. If this was just error, the error should have benefitted both candidates equally, in the long run.

I haven't heard anything more on this from the right OR THE LEFT. Seems to me this was the closest thing to proof of tampering we had going, and no one is talking about it. Isn't it important to show that these systems are not secure?

So what are the goals of the DNC, Kerry campaign, BBV.org, and the rest that they can ignore this? Are they on to something better in Ohio and New Hampshire? Are there not enough headlines in the NY Senate race...is a senate seat race not sexy enough?

You know, it's getting old seeing issues not being addressed aggressively enough. What about Sproul's company destroying democratic registration forms in Oregon, Nevada, and WV? Was that story debunked or is no one pursuing it? What about the 2000 felon list in Florida that wasn't supposed to be used again in 2004 but was? Was that story inaccurate or are we all just forgetting about it?

[Redleg]

14. The $60,000 question...

It seems highly improbable.

[MGKrebs]

15. I don't know.

Two days before the election we were told that hacking was counter productive (and I was personally chastised for questioning that statement). Now all the attention is directed toward investigating possible hacks.

I just want to help, but I guess I'll just stick to ballot access issues and Instant Runoff Voting.

[ThoughtCriminal]

16. Look at the probabilities of winning coin flips

In a two way race, a single random glitch and accidental design flaw should benefit a particular candidate 50% of the time. It's like a coin flip, but with Republicans, it always seems to be coming up "Heads".

Odds of winning
1 time 1/2
2 times 1/4
3 times 1/8
4 times 1/16
5 times 1/32
6 times 1/64
7 times 1/128
8 times 1/256
9 times 1/512
10 times 1/1024
.
20 times 1/1048576
.
.
.
etc.

Time to look at that coin.

[CatWoman]

17. kick

:kick:

[Quixote1818]

18. It takes a slimy bug to know a bug