Forget the polls. This election can be stolen.
Given Romney's incompetence, Obama should win by a landslide. But given the GOP's voter suppression tactics, and the fact that voting machines' software belongs to companies that want Republicans to win, we'll be lucky if Obama can squeak out a win.
Election night is going to be nail bitting time. If Romney "wins," we'll know it was stolen. And if that happens, I really don't know what we'll do. Talk of taking to the streets and "revolution" aren't realistic. The police will be ready for it.
Do you think they can steal it? And if so, what do you think we can/should do about it?
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This was talked about in earlier threads. Anything official would tip off the opposition, since forewarned is fore-armed.
"...Voter-protection teams, as Bauer and the campaign call them, have been working in battleground states since the beginning of 2012. The teams are tasked with monitoring local election laws and regulations and reporting any "shenanigans" or other potential problems through the chain of command. They talk with election officials about voter requirements and other regulation changes that could confuse voters.
The campaign is also asking lawyers working with the voter-protection teams to volunteer as poll workers and poll watchers so they can monitor the process.
"On the ground, every day, this is taking place," Bauer said. "
It) involves Chicago, Washington and all of the states that are involved in this effort."
The campaign created a website, Gottavote.org, to help voters know what's required to vote in their states. Another site, http://ofa.bo/victory, allows volunteers to sign up as poll watchers for the Obama campaign.
Conservative poll watchers are also mobilizing. True the Vote, a Houston-based, tea party-backed voter integrity group, aims to train 1 million poll watchers..."
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/09/07/20120907BC-CNS-DNC-Voting-Rights.html?nclick_check=1#ixzz25oxzuOqK
In the graphs above, Russia '11, Russia '12, and Uganda show strong evidence of cheating in the election (the rare districts with about 100% turnout also voted about 100% for the winner). This is strong, easily understandable, visual evidence of cheating. There is a write-up on this statistical technique at phys.org.
A lot of people in the US have suspected cheating in recent elections. I don't believe that election cheating in the US would be of this ballot stuffing type. I do wonder if similar techniques could check for irregularities that provide evidence of cheating in the presidential election. I'm thinking of things like late pre-election polls and/or exit polls versus reported results. Then, in election districts with anomalous results look for commonalities (e.g. using Diebold voting machines). Maybe this type of checking is already done, but, if not, I think it would be worth implementing. If we have strong, visual evidence of cheating, the people won't stand for it. The Democratic Party could probably come up with this type of analysis.