So what happened to Diebold today?

[Rocknrule]

Did we finally blow the lid of their treachery? Or did someone there get a conscience?

[rzemanfl]

1. Their assignment was to keep Senate close enough to take to

court and it looks as thought they are doing that.

[Sperk]

2. I was wondering the same thing! I really figured we'd gain but not enough

to take control....and the cover story would begin.

What a nice surprise!!!!!!!!!!!1

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Maybe the Dems made sure there were good people around to keep an

eye on things and make sure they stay on the up-and-up?

[William Bloode]

4. I think we turned out too heavy for them to steal it.

I saw once in the Webb Allen race where Klan boy jumped ahead by 20,000 in mere seconds. Webb came back though and is in the lead now though. That sudden 20,000 jump was very fishy.

[cspanlovr]

5. They're softening us up for '08.

[readmoreoften]

8. That is my fear if we only take the House. But I don't know now.

I expected Rove to engineer Allen's seat and it's not panning out that way. If we take the House and the Senate, I don't know what happened, but it may be such a sweeping gain that they can't even fake it. I wonder if we might be winning by, say, 55-56% in some of these hairline races.

[Rainscents]

6. They knew ALL eyes were on them!

Plus... Dem's turn out mess!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. It was way too dangerous to steal this election. The Dems were ahead everywhere.

If they had ended up winning...lawyers would have been all over them.

[American Jesus]

9. Massive turnout was more than their fraud could handle

Common sense says that a large turnout in a mid term election is NOT going to be a vote for the status quo. However, if you look at the races where all the numbers haven't come in yet, such as Virginia, and we may not be out of the woods yet.

I find it very hard to believe that a racist moron such as Macacawitz could legitimately win this election with all that's gone wrong for him lately.

[lapfog_1]

10. They did their job

but you can't hold back the ocean.

But they look to be stealing Missouri

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

11. We still need paper ballots and audits. That hasn't changed IMHO.

[Cleita]

12. It was alive and well in California

:cry:

[Little Wing]

13. My theory is

Diebold made such a shitty software solution, that it was inherently unhackable. Meaning, it was so crap, nobody could log into it.

I'll bet the login part crashed.

On the other hand, if the GOP was winning, my theory would fall apart, so it's a shitty theory.

[Fleshdancer]

14. too much heat on them lately n/t

[Selatius]

15. Too much attention on them. Too many people have become aware. n/t

[BuyingThyme]

16. The Palast rule.

[Bluebear]

17. Polls were too clear to finesse, methinks.

[LSK]

18. diebold is not in every state - its still an issue that needs to be fixed

Before 2008.

[Greeby]

19. Diebold was at work

However, the turnout and anger was so massive, that if it were a fair set of elections, we'd get double our House total

[yourout]

21. I think we won alot bigger than the totals.

My guess is they tilted the table as far as they possibly could without getting caught and pissed off Americans overwhelmed what they could steal. I am betting the actual percentage of Dem votes in Virginia was 5 to 8 percent higher.

[Raksha]

26. That's why I"m hoping Allen demands a recount.

But he probably WON'T, and just exactly for that reason! After all, he doesn't want America finding out something we SHOULD know about but don't, if you take my meaning.

[johnnie]

20. Considering that only two out of the five machines were working

When I went this morning, my theory is, the downed machines were the ones that were "fixed" and the plan fell apart..LOL.

[ShaneGR]

22. Tinfoil hate BS

Can we stick with facts. I read every single reply in this thread and didnt see one example, linking, or anything about verifiable fraud. I'm not pro-diebold. In fact, my polling place gave me the OPTION of paper vs computer voting. I chose paper of course (event the the paper ballot eventually gets fed through a diebold machine). But seriously, I'd prefer actual facts over blah blah blah gonna get stolen blah blah.

[Raksha]

23. I think they probably still cheated, but it wasn't close

except in a few areas. A Republican majority would have been too suspicious. I would like the see ANY suspicious results challenged. If we officially picked up 35 seats in the House but actually won 45, I want to know about it! And I hope Allen actually DOES call for a recount in the Virginia Senate race. It might show he lost by an even bigger margin than the official count.

[New Earth]

24. there were problems

lots of vote switching going on in early voting, not sure about today yet thought but i can imagine there were.

i really think there was a huge turnout, wasn't that already said somewhere? they were saying on MSNBC earlier this was a pretty huge turnout for Midterm elections. that along with so many different forms of voting probably helped a lot.

there had to be huge turnout in Ohio --- Blackwell lost! he has been spending the last 2 years trying to suppress the voters in every way he could, and he still lost :rofl:

[bigriver]

25. Conspiracy theories Suck!

Conspiracy theorists are dumb fucks!

[Bertrand]

27. conspiracy theories do suck

in order to prevent more you and everyone else should push for electoral reform - specifically universal paper balloting

[Raksha]

28. There are no conspiracy theorists on this thread. Just realists

and people who know how to connect the dots.

[LordLovesAWorkingMan]

30. Or at least people who alter the conspiracy to fit the argument, as needed nt

[bigriver]

31. lol

"connect the dots" usually means "connect the dots I want to see".

[silverojo]

29. "We The People" were watching

The citizens groups kept their eyes open, and made sure our votes counted. Kudos to all of them!!

[LynneSin]

32. Perhaps they're just waiting for 2008

Let us have 2006 so when they steal 2008 we'll have our guards left down.

[mnhtnbb]

33. Just finished watching "Hacking Democracy". Very, very scary.

I think maybe the R's didn't put in enough 'fix'.

[Hippo_Tron]

34. OHIO NOW HAS A DEM SECRETARY OF STATE

Jennifer Brunner (D) won her race to succeed Ken Blackwell. With her and Strickland, Ohio will have clean elections in 2008.

[AntiFascist]

35. I think it really was a tsunami...

and what we're seeing is the (still positive) result of election fraud. There's probably still much work to done with the machine issue.