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In reply to the discussion: Retired NSA Analyst Proves GOP Is Stealing Elections [View all]GitRDun
(1,846 posts)I am long past the age where I can be intimidated by a bad person who thinks they can bully people to their way of thinking by abusing them verbally. Quite frankly, your approach to my skepticism with abuse and dismissiveness is quite like the Republicans you claim to abhore. If you want to people to be open to your arguments, perhaps you should review how some of the leading Democrats deal with people that disagree with them; argument, discussion, persuasion, RESPECT.
I have said repeatedly, that it is POSSIBLE to manipulate voting machines. However, I am also saying the published information does not provide enough data to make me concerned that a national presidential election can be manipulated.
I did read your Daily Kos article and some of the links. All they point to is that it is possible that voting machines can be manipulated and that Republicans do commit voter fraud. I agree with both of those statements. What they do not prove is that a wide scale voter fraud that would change a national presidential election can be easily accomplished.
A quote from the Utah article "But whether the Diebold op-scanners tallied the ballots inaccurately on Election Day or during the so-called "recount" remains unknown at the moment."
Another quote from the same article, " Following years of failure of Diebold's voting systems, the company changed their name to Premier, only to see the assets of the failing company finally purchased last year by Dominion Voting, a Canadian firm which now services the machines.)"
Here your "facts" provide nothing other than evidence that Republicans commit voting fraud and that electronic voting machines can be manipulated..these are things we already know.
A Canadian firm maintaining optical scanners that don't work properly does not approach the emergency you are creating. My guess is that this abuse you keep projecting on me is more a reflection of your frustration that more evidence is NOT present to confirm your fears of Republican election theft.
While I sympathize with your concerns, I don't think you are adding anything to the discussion.