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In reply to the discussion: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections [View all]tandem5
(2,072 posts)As a programmer, I know it takes only a couple of lines of code to manipulate a system in a big way. When you have a small number of private companies building DREs that are completely black box and "proprietary" it does not take much of a conspiracy to pull off an event. Besides what is supposed to make our system unimpeachable and the model for the world is that there is vigilance in the presence of perceived conflicts of interests. The threshold for action is not after corruption occurs.
Now as a person with common sense, to expose such actions would be "a big political deal." In fact it would strike at the heart of who we think we are as a country. The reaction to such news would be instant incredulity and condemnation (of the messenger).
Hell, I mean it took five years for America to acknowledge Lance Armstrong cheated in the face of insurmountable evidence and even now that acknowledgement is tepid at best.
I'm not making these comments to affirm the validity of the source referenced in the OP, but rather to emphasize that the subject of election fraud or perceived election fraud is not a trivial subject.