Hey DU'ers - You could learn a LOT from the Free Republic... [View All]

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You still don't believe that the 2004 Election was stolen? Check out this article written in November, 1996. The author is probably Ronnie Dugger (The Nation).

Could the voting computers be pre-programmed to count votes in a way that favors a certain candidate-perhaps a candidate who has bribed a crooked company official or programmer? ...the possibility of hidden "subroutines" of programming code within the massive program which could suddenly interrupt the count and divert a few thousand votes from one candidate to another-a feat known as a "flip-flop" to experts concerned about potential computer vote fraud. Other potential dirty tricks which could be lurking inside Pandora's Black Box include the "Trojan Horse" (a set of commands concealed within the thousands of lines of code designed to rig the vote count and remain undetectable), and the "time bomb" in which the computer counts accurately until late in the tabulation when, after a certain number of votes have been counted, it suddenly begins to transfer every third or fourth vote meant for one candidate to his favored opponent.

<http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a370cd2921b85.htm>

In '96 only 62% of all votes were counted by computer: punch card or opscan readers or DRE's. Modems have been installed in many of the optical scan voting machines -- votes can be manipulated using cell phone technology. Central tabulators are, of course, easiest, but I think that voting machine mafia pulled out all of the stops on this election and used every means at their disposal to hack the vote.

The comments by the Freepers at the end of the article indicate that they believe that the voting machine companies may have stolen the '96 election for Clinton. Maybe his vote tally was unaffected, maybe they reduced Clinton's vote count, but couldn't quite pull the election away from him in '96.

It seems that people are only willing to talk about this travesty to justice and democracy when their candidate has just lost.

And, no, I don't read/post at Free Republic -- I was reading the article posted at DU earlier this morning by Dancing_Dave and followed the links. Here is the post:
<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=177488&mesg_id=177488>

:grr: