Re: Bush Strums as New Orleans drowns

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:47:28 -0700, in message
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Damien Neil <neild-usenet4@xxxxxxxxxx> caused electrons to dance
and photons to travel coherently in saying:

> Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Kip Williams:
>> >Seth Breidbart wrote:
>> >> File down one of the latches so that 10% of the attempted votes for
>> >> candidate X don't register.
>> >
>> >Sounds like something that could be detected afterwards, unlike the more
>> >modern machines.
>>
>> Yeah, maybe. Part of the difficulty with detecting it
>> afterwards, is that wearing so a counter doesn't always count is
>> one of the recognized failure modes of mechanical voting
>> machines.
>
>But at least you can detect that it happened, even if you may not be
>able to tell with certainty that the damage was deliberate.

Detecting that it happened isn't the same as getting an accurate
vote count after the fact.

>And if most of the voting machines in a city just happened to have wear
>on the latch for the same candidate, you can probably conclude that
>something is up.

It doesn't have to be that blatant. The bad machine(s) only need
to go to the polling places where that candidate's voters are
concentrated. In Minneapolis, for example, there are no
Republican precincts, but there are a few where Republicans
approach equity with Democrats. Slip those machines into those
precincts, and the Republican candidates lose by just a little
more than usual. It doesn't do much to the percentages for
Minneapolis, but Minneapolis is large enough to swing the entire
State of Minnesota in a presidential election, though not to the
extent it once was.

This may be why it was Republicans in Minnesota who led the drive
towards modern, paper-ballot reading machines, despite no
evidence of vote fixing since the 1930s. In the event of a
question, the actual, numbered ballots still exist for counting.
Still relies on being able to find Republican poll-workers (there
are enough DFLers that finding Democratic poll-workers is no
problem anywhere in the state) in Minneapolis. Some precincts
just don't have anyone who'll admit to the sin of Republicanism.

--
Doug Wickstrom <nimshubur@xxxxxxxxxxx>

"Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine,
'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. But he that filches from me
my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me
poor indeed." --William Shakespeare, "Othello"

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