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Grex > Agora46 > #173: Bush protects his invest...err, his contributors. | |
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happyboy
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response 25 of 33:
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Sep 1 01:20 UTC 2003 |
re23: isn't that a brand of toothpaste?
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gull
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response 26 of 33:
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Sep 1 01:41 UTC 2003 |
'Columbus - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio
told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed
to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.
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'The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc.
- who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush -
prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O
'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election
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(Source: http://www.ohiocitizen.org/moneypolitics/2003/controversy.htm)
This raises a scary thought: What if the lack of paper confirmation and
audit trails on electronic voting machines isn't an oversight, but an
intentional design choice to allow vote manipulation?
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gelinas
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response 27 of 33:
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Sep 1 01:53 UTC 2003 |
After all the discussion of the matter, it can NOT be called an 'oversight'.
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mcnally
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response 28 of 33:
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Sep 1 05:05 UTC 2003 |
It can't *honestly* be called an "oversight" but I have no doubt that
someone will try to make that claim anyway..
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russ
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response 29 of 33:
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Sep 1 16:01 UTC 2003 |
Clean voter lists, audit trails and recounts interfere with a political
machine's ability to steal elections fair and square. Of course they'll
exercise their right to get around those nuisances!
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bru
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response 30 of 33:
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Sep 1 23:35 UTC 2003 |
Damned right, the Democrats have been using these machines for that purtpose
from day one.
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russ
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response 31 of 33:
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Sep 2 03:27 UTC 2003 |
Re #30: Ah, so the endemic abuses of the Democrats in places like
Chicago makes it right for the Republicans to one-up them all over
the country? Nice to see where you stand on the morality, Bruce.
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bru
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response 32 of 33:
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Sep 2 16:38 UTC 2003 |
I didn't say that. I just find it strange that they make more noise when they
fear it is they who will get spurned as aoopesed to their opposition.
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gull
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response 33 of 33:
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Sep 2 17:15 UTC 2003 |
Well, duh. People tend to complain more about stuff that affects them
personally.
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