Letter: Brownback/Davis election was strange night working polls

[GoneFishin]

8. Pulling ahead in the home stretch is a key characteristic of fraudulent electronic vote tabulation.

Here's why :

If you were the person trying to rig an election your goal is likely to be to cause your party to win by only a slim margin so as not to be blatantly bogus. Which means you want to increase your party's votes by as few votes as necessary to push him/her into the win.

The problem is that you don't know how many votes will be required to accomplish that, or if any fudging will be required at all, until late in the returns.

And hence, the major fudging tends to happen at the end, once the size of the required fudge factor is known.