New and Better way To Secure Fair Elections [View All]

[abester]

With great interest I have read Kennedy's article in RSM earlier this week. With even greater interest and a growing sense of wonder I have read Salon's Manjoo column debunking Kennedy and, implicitly, all those who feel the outcome of 2004 election was illegitimate.

Apparantly there are still quite a lot of democrats out there who still firmly deny any foul play. Even on DU I read statements from ConservativeDemocrat that are fairly typical, denying facts, dismissing evidence, or simply lobbing ad hominems and disqualifiers at those expressing concerns over election integrity.

It is obvious to me now that those who dismiss election fraud are simply holding on to a belief. And as usual you can't argue with a believer, and they won't change their mind no matter how much evidence is presented.

Instead of trying to convince them and the rest of America that something truly radical needs to be done in order to secure the elections and save democracy in the process, just let go.

Don't bother with election reforms, let the republicans believe they are untouchable, and allow them to grow overconfident. They will then probably win the 2006 elections, and in order to secure the 2008 presidential election they will need to shift votes by 30% or more.

By then, hopefully, even the most stounched nay-sayers can't deny the already-obvious. At least, I hope the bigger gap will convince them, but I'm not alltogether certain.

No one refutes the fact that the discrepencies between exit polls and vote tallies are statistically impossible and therefore some systematic effect must be at work. In addition, virtually all those discrepancies favour the republicans. At the precint level those differences are even more pronounced and unbelievable.

You have to wonder, what does it take for them to finally start connecting the dots??