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Ask yourself this.
"How many people are in a position to intentionally cause the loss of even just a few democratic votes at at least one precinct in the United States?"
. 1 to 5 poll workers, per precinct, who can intentionally screw something up. . 1 election judge, per precinct, who can wrongly tell a voter they are not eligible . An unknown number of people at the power company, who can discourage voters by taking the machines down for a few hours with a brown-out or power outage . 3 to 20 people at the county board of elections, per county, who can "accidentally" screw up a ballot, or give poll workers confusing training, or any of many, many other things. . A voting company field technician . One of many other employees of a voting machine company . A print shop, by printing bad opscan ballots . 5 to 50 people, per state, at the secretary of state's office . An unknown number of thug freepers running disinformation campaigns and challenging voters at the polls . A dishonest registration drive canvasser prior to the election, by destroying registration forms . An unknown number of post office employees, by delaying absentee ballots to or from the voter . An unknown number of e-spooks tapping into communications links to central tabulators . Some number of Police officers, by threatening to tow voters cars as they wait in line, putting up roadblocks in inconvenient places, and who knows what else . Emergency personnel, real or fake, who can temporarily close the polls for "security threats", trash-can fires, or anything else they can come up with, causing a few inconvenienced voters to leave . Employers, by being ultra strict about lunch-break durations for those trying to squeeze a trip to the poll between their two day jobs . Several minor court judges, in badly timed findings about election law especially with regard to provisional ballots
...did I miss any? What's that make, maybe an average of 100 people for each precinct has a way to screw up the vote?
Now, as to this "massive conspiracy" how many of those 100 or so people would actually do such a thing? We do know that at least a few would do so, and a whole lot more, because we know about the "Texas Strike Force", the posters telling people to vote on Wednesday, and the "you're not registered" canvassers.
But of those 100 people or so, how many would do just one shady little thing to help their beloved chimp along? Keep in mind now, for some "It's for the good of the country" and for others "to protect our fundamental values" and still for others "because my business will profit from another Bush term" and even "because someone will pay me to."
While you are pondering your answer, ponder also these snippets of statistics from various Google results on cheating:
. 22% of married men reportedly have cheated on their spouses . 14% percent of women have claimed infidelity . About a third of the 2,100 students taking part in a 1999 survey on 21 campuses admitted to serious test cheating, 75% to less serious cheating . A 2002 national survey by Rutgers' Management Education Center of 4,500 high school students found that 75 percent of them engage in serious cheating . More than half have plagiarized work they found on the Internet. . Some 50 percent of those responding to the survey said they don't think copying questions and answers from a test is even cheating. . 10.7 percent of taxpayers have written off a vacation as a business expense . 14.5 percent have neglected to report cash income . 6.2 percent say that it's fine to report a higher donation to charity than was actually given . 21 percent of taxpayers say that they believe it's OK to cheat by claiming personal automobile use for business
... and those are just the polls, look at our court systems to see how many people get caught doing sleazy things... think how many get away with it.
So out of those 100 or so people, how hard would it be to find a petty bribe taker? How likely would that 100 or so people be to include a "true believer" or personally motivated individual that doesn't even need to be told what to do...
Enough with the "massively impossible conspiracy" canard people. ENOUGH!
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