Reply #35: For the reasons I said. [View All]

[jobycom]

First, Diebold's a myth. Doesn't mean there's not some truth to the myth, but it's blown way out of proportion. Even if Diebold is some evil empire blatantly fixing the votes, there are other machines being used, too, and Diebold would blow its cover if it got too far out of whack with the rest of the machines. They can only rig a close election, in other words, and frankly, I haven't seen proof that they've rigged anything. I don't trust the Ohio vote, but I haven't seen that Deibold rigged it.

And there has always been cheating, long before Diebold. People act like electronic voting makes cheating easier. It doesn't, it makes it harder. People have been cheating with paper ballots our whole history. Ask LBJ, he would never have been Senator otherwise. For that matter, there's a Texas Democratic Rep in Congress whose election was rigged with paper ballots just this last cycle. He's a Bush Democrat and he defeated a real Democrat only because someone found a box of uncounted ballots at a polling station in a bank (I think it was a bank) owned by a Bush supporter after the initial tally showed he lost.

I swear I think most of the people whipping up this frenzy about Diebold are Republicans, because it diverts us from the real issues. When I worked a polling station, we had people who were afraid to vote because of all the stuff they'd heard about BBV. We don't even use Diebold here, but they were convinced that something was up. I wonder how many people stay home because of this paranoid frenzy we've created.