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Re: Ohio, E-Voting and Rove, Remember this? "Kaptur Defeats Kucinich 94% to 4%"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002406607#post103At the time, I wrote this:
To get a result like this, two things needed to happen:
1.) The rigging technology required that the ballot boxes were, as it were, pre-stuffed.
2.) Dennis did far worse than they expected. And the ad(s) that everyone alludes to may have done just that.
Here's the irony: they probably rigged when they didn't have to. Delicious, no?
1.) The rigging technology required that the ballot boxes were, as it were, pre-stuffed.
2.) Dennis did far worse than they expected. And the ad(s) that everyone alludes to may have done just that.
Here's the irony: they probably rigged when they didn't have to. Delicious, no?
In other words, there was an Over-Rigging that made the rig fairly obvious. So maybe, just maybe, someone tried to cut it closer this time and got burned by a larger-than-expected turnout.
