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Stevepol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-31-09 03:32 PM
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238. Several of the "facts" about election results are dubious.
For example,

the statement that her defeat was "massively assisted by a national media campaign of slander against McKinney… Majette joined the Congressional Black Caucus on the strength of less than 20 percent of the black vote, but backed by over 90 percent of an abnormally large white turnout – including tens of thousands of white Republicans who crossed over to vote in the Democratic primary election."

In all elections in GA, where the votes are counted as far as I know totally insde the Diebold (Premier) black box without verification, it's not possible to have the slightest confidence in the results. Whites may have turned out in large numbers to defeat her. Many of the white voters may also have turned out to vote for her. There's absolutely no way to know from the alleged results.

It's quite possible that she incurred the wrath and distrust of the voting machine vendor which is currently allowed to count the votes in secret without verification and they decided they didn't want her around.

That's all it would have taken.

Not saying that happened. Just saying there's no way to know what happened and any statement about the alleged results is purely opinion based on nothing.
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