Reply #111: Dieboold never explains anything. They just rig the election.

[Stevepol]

They leave the explaining to others.

In GA (02), Roy Barnes had an 11%-point lead 4 days before the election and lost by 5% points.

Diebold as far as I know never deigned to explain how that happened.

Cleland had about an 8% point lead and lost by 5%, a 13-point swing. Diebold never bothered to explain that.

Similar swings occurred in MN and CO, not wholly on Diebold as in GA but I believe pretty clearly the fix was in.

And as far as I can tell the fix remains. We just don't have a democracy anymore, and for now dissent is useless.

I personally believe we have to have the honest Repubs to help us. You can't have a democracy without having the sincere desire of both sides to have such a system. You can disagree about policies but if you want to have a democracy, there are certain things you have to agree on. For now, the moneyed party, the Repubs, just keeps looking the other way while the vendors of these machines continue to rig elections and cheat in every conceivable way without suffering anything for it: kick-backs, bribes, rebates, empty promises, lies, collusion. The elections officials are over-matched when they face these guys with their lies and their pretended non-partisanship. And the Feds keep pushing the officials to get with the program. The Repubs will have to help us in this battle with big money and the mafia electronic voting machine manufacturers and programmers.