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more on " Bigger Than Watergate! The stealing of the US voting system"
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:46:45 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: "Robert M. McClure" <rmm () unidot com> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 13:44:11 -0700 To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] " Bigger Than Watergate! The stealing of the US voting system" Upon careful reflection, one would have to consider this story highly improbable at best. Historically, the security of a secret in inversely proportional to the number of people who know it. The only real guarantee is if exactly one person is in on it, and that person is dead. Consider the number of people who would have to be in on the game to make massive fraud possible: programmers, program system managers, executives in the company(s) making voting machines, political operatives who decide how many votes to steal and from whom, minions who actually carry out the manipulations, involvement of the exit polling workers and organizations. Considering the nearly 50,000 polling places across the US, the number of people who would have to be "in" on the game boggles the imagination. Even more mind boggling is the idea that they could collectively keep a secret for more than two or three microseconds, especially considering that the media would have to in on the game as well. This is not to say that there is not vote fraud, but for the most part it is ad hoc and local. (Remember LBJ's famous 87 vote senate victory in 1948 in which the last 200 votes cast in Duval County were cast in alphabetical order.) As far as I am able to tell, massive vote fraud has to be carried out openly and with strong-arm methods (such as the Mugabe case cited). It is going to take a lot more hard evidence than I have seen so far to convince me that massive vote rigging is in the works and not simple ineptitude. Bob McClure ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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