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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"mobiledan" |
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11 Aug 2004 10:24:11 PM |
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How To Rig An Election In The United States |
Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to
control forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you
are likely to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not
wish to be removed by a ballot driven backlash.
Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process
itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
Imagine for example if you could:
*secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote
counting software;
*centralize vote counting systems, and politicize their supervision;
*legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and
provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems;
*establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the
ground in the election - at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is
happening at a micro-level;
*get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you
also control - removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your
shenanigans.
And imagine further that you install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in
the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the
tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in.
Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number
of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night. On
the basis of polling you could pick your marginal seats and thus keep your
tweaking to a bare minimum.
Such a system would enable you to minimize the risks of discovery of your
activities.
Such a system would enable you to target and remove individual political
opponents who were too successful, too popular or too inquisitive.
And most importantly of all, such a system would enable you to accomplish
all the above without the public being in the least aware of what you were
doing. When confronted with the awfulness of your program they would be
forced to concede that at least it is the result of a democratic process.
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/sludge154.html
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
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| User: "Fact Checker" |
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| Title: Re: How To Rig An Election In The United States |
12 Aug 2004 03:24:51 AM |
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mobiledan wrote:
Imagine if you will that you are a political interest group that wishes to
control forevermore the levers of power. Imagine further that you know you
are likely to implement a highly unpopular political agenda, and you do not
wish to be removed by a ballot driven backlash.
Imagine then if it were possible to somehow subvert the voting process
itself in such a way that you could steal elections without anybody knowing.
Imagine for example if you could:
*secure control of the companies that make the voting machines and vote
counting software;
*centralize vote counting systems, and politicize their supervision;
*legislate for the adoption of such systems throughout your domain, and
provide large amounts of money for the purchase of these systems;
*establish systems of vote counting that effectively prevent anybody on the
ground in the election - at a booth or precinct level - from seeing what is
happening at a micro-level;
*get all the major media to sign up to a single exit-polling system that you
also control - removing the risk of exit-polling showing up your
shenanigans.
And imagine further that you install a backdoor, or numerous backdoors, in
the vote counting systems you have built that enable you to manipulate the
tabulation of results in real time as they are coming in.
Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number
of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night. On
the basis of polling you could pick your marginal seats and thus keep your
tweaking to a bare minimum.
Such a system would enable you to minimize the risks of discovery of your
activities.
Such a system would enable you to target and remove individual political
opponents who were too successful, too popular or too inquisitive.
And most importantly of all, such a system would enable you to accomplish
all the above without the public being in the least aware of what you were
doing. When confronted with the awfulness of your program they would be
forced to concede that at least it is the result of a democratic process.
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/sludge154.html
I'm just waiting for November when people come out of the polls
stating, "I pushed the correct name on the screen, but my vote
changed right before my eyes!"
Vote by absentee and mail it by certified mail, after making a
photocopy.
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Warm Regards,
Raven Cecil
"Tribal sovereignty means that; it’s sovereign. I mean,
you're a — you've been given sovereignty, and you're
viewed as a sovereign entity. And therefore the relationship
between the federal government and tribes is one between
sovereign entities." - George W. Bush
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you
think it means." - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
"CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual
profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce
The Modern Newspeak Dictionary:
http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/
"It's DoublePlusGood!"
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| User: "james" |
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| Title: Re: How To Rig An Election In The United States |
12 Aug 2004 05:14:03 AM |
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In article <10hmaavhoa0iq99@corp.supernews.com>,
Fact Checker <rtcecil@hatemail.com> wrote:
Vote by absentee and mail it by certified mail, after making a
photocopy.
Now, when you do that, what happens when the people who proxy your
absentee ballot go in and cast your vote on the Diebold machine?
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