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In reply to the discussion: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections [View all]DirtyDawg
(802 posts)...that this guy would have looked into the '02 Georgia (the State) vote for Senate and Governor. This was the first time that an entire state had converted to electronic voting (Diebold-built touch screens), supposedly to prevent the kinds of problems encountered in Floride in '00. In both races, Max Cleland and Roy Barnes, both Democrats and incumbents. Their leads according to polls going into the last few days ranged from 6 to 10 percentage points. They both lost and the state has been solidly Republican ever since. Questions were raised almost immediately. The SOS in Georgia was a (real) Blue Dog Dem (and a protege of Zell Miller if that tells you anything), and had directed the conversion but had Diebold reps serve as her field staff to implement the system (and, by the way, one of her real staffers ended up with a job at Diebold when it was all over). Somewhere in the aftermath, a whistleblower witness 'testified' that a late 'patch' to the system software was installed by a home-office Diebold representative (supposedly without the knowledge of the SOS's office). That 'whistleblower' further claimed that this patch was labeled 'Rob Georgia'. All was denied by the SOS and the decision was made by certain people not to pursue the issue further as it would be too devastating to too many people. In other words, and to borrow a line from Col Nathan Jesup, 'We couldn't handle the truth.' What we really can't handle is more 'rat-fu$&ing' by Republicans and frankly think its time some people were made to pay a price that would get the attention of all the others. Let's make it a capital offense and execute some SOB.