Reply #91: The point, I think

[Poor Richard Lex]

is that * knew he was going to lose those states and had the machines rigged for election day. * just didn't know how bad he was going to lose NH, and Kerry still beat him despite the cheating.

NH has paper ballots, so there is a record of all the votes that were cast. There is a record of each and they can be recounted. NH ballots are counted on Optical Scan machines, the same type of machines that gave * all those votes in the Florida counties.

Now, imagine what would happen if the NH ballots showed Kerry with a HUGE victory, just as we saw from the exit polls. Every state would be suspect, and millions of pissed off voters would be out in the streets.

*, having declared his Man Date, would be limited in what he could do to stop it, lest he lost his political "capital."

If Kerry saw this coming, and Nader suspected repub fraud (its possible, I mean what better way to be a consumer advocate then to gain access to the system and gain some power to influence events. Bingo.

It would be a delicate and elegant turn of events, this election.

Despite my low post count and no credibility, I will put on the TFH and my wishful thinking cap to wonder if the optical scan machines haven't been rigged for a long time.

I know they are used in Virginia, a state that has a political history of being moderate. Now we are controlled by the repukes. The old style voting machines are all gone (I voted for Clinton in 92 on one) and the optical scanners have been in use ever since. We went from the first black governor in the US to shitheads like George Allen and Gilmore. With Northern Va getting so big I just can't see this state going so red.