Just curious re the consensus of DUers regarding the reliability of primaries when....

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Diebold optical scanners and tabulators are used? Did everyone forget about those?

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1. Maybe brad blog will chime in...

Surely the topic is worth discussion.

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2. "consensus of DUers". Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

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3. You are right, I worded it incorrectly

Does anyone registered at this site still question this country's electronic voting and counting machines?

Peace patriot or anyone else still out there?

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4. EVERYONE at this site questions the electronic voting systems....

... my personal battle cry is...


Paper ballots, hand counted, in public, cameras rolling.

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6. So, we will agree then that the winner of

The Iowa and New Hampsire primaries was actually a selection, correct?

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8. I shouldn't be speaking for others, but many (most?) DU members are suspicious...

... of the election process end-to-end.


I don't necessarily agree that it was a "selection". I think there may very well be multiple parties independently rigging things on behalf of their own candidates.

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9. So you believe that there are multiple entities that have access to...

Our corrupted voting system? You could be right.

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5. For crissakes they never corrected the Iowa results where Santorum beat Willard by 20 votes.

I honestly don't believe the GOP gives a crap about accuracy. I do believe, however, that the GOP will do anything and everything they can think of to install a Republican in the WH and to take over the Senate. Exit polling will make that more difficult, however, there are a myriad of ways to cheat vis a vis voter suppression and monkeying with the electronic machines. To answer your question, I don't think anybody has forgotten about that.

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7. I disagree..

The way things are looking is that Paul will run as an independent thus assuring an Obama second term.

Whether you believe that is a good or bad thing is irrelevant.

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10. I wouldn't hang my hat on Paul running third party.

He has said repeatedly he will not run third party, but his relatively strong showing in NH may give him pause to consider doing just that. However, the south will not be as kind to him at the polls. I agree it is possible but whether it would help or hurt Pres O is debatable. My money is on Romney who already is pretty much the de facto GOP nominee, mostly because the GOP doesn't have the imagination to do anything different than picking the next guy in line. We shall see.

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11. Well kitten, I believe the south will treat Paul better, than you think....

If primaries results were not tampered with. This Paul has a huge following, all you need to do is cruise around the Internet, or check your local lawn signs. I am in repuke central and there are hand made signs everywhere.

Rubber meets road; we are not in control of our "selection".

We know that our voting system has been compromised. Yet some still participate as if...

Don't get it twisted, I have no dog in this race. How can you doubt our election process in one sense and not doubt in the other?