Reply #50: FDR: "In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens,

[Zorra]

you can bet it was planned that way."

Hopefully, someone will discover the reasons why Nickolaus keeps everything secret, keeps critical data on her personal computer without apparent reliable backup, and does not have a second person who knows how to access the data in case she is incapacitated, etc.

It is possible that she may have withheld the data for nefarious reasons that are not readily apparent or discernable, and the truth may never be uncovered. This could all be smoke and mirrors.

Rove and his fraud crew may be involved, and may very well have been working on, and found, some clever new and improved way to steal an election. He certainly has all the resources and more behind him to assemble a team of experts to do this.

I am hoping that some really skilled techie/forensic/logistical investigators can solve this riddle by examining the scenario and evidence and then extrapolating on the possibilities of what could have been done here that is outside the realm of the obvious. But I suspect that the surface evidence will lead to a quick conclusion that no fraud was committed, and the matter will never be thoroughly investigated. Remember, it took a while after the election to discover some of the ways that fraud was committed in Florida, 2000.

And it is possible that this whole thing could have been purely an enormous mistake, and that the amazing assemblage of circumstantial evidence is a profound and ironic coincidence. I'm really having a hard time wrapping my mind around this possibility, and I wish I knew enough about computers to be able to make a reasonable deduction about why Nickolaus uses such apparently unorthodox and suspect methods of manipulating electoral data. My gut is screaming that something is wrong that is not even remotely obvious on the surface.

FDR was a very astute man, and IMO, the quote at the beginning of this post should be taken lightly.