<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>The conservative press is full of irregularities that favor democrats.. I think it more likely that the press is biased than the voting machinery. There have to be some democrats working for those companies.. </div><div><br></div><div>-Kelly</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Epic™ 4G Touch</div></div> <br>Adrian Tymes <atymes@gmail.com> wrote:<br>On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, spike <spike66@att.net> wrote:<br>>>... On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes<br>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:31 PM, spike <spike66@att.net> wrote:<br>>>>... it is starting to look more and more like whoever wins in Ohio wins.<br>><br>>>...The state whose government has been pulling strong and legally<br>> questionable means to swing the vote Republican?<br>><br>> No, that was in the next state over, Pennsylvania:<br>><br>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU<br><br>Not what I meant. I meant tactics which go after the registrars<br>and records of vote - which completely bypass the voters.<br>Doesn't matter if you're polling 70%, even 90%, if the official<br>record can be tweaked to report you at 49% to the other one's<br>50%.<br><br>http://www.michaelparenti.org/stolenelections.html<br><br>>>...It's not the vote that counts, it's who counts the votes...<br>><br>> Ja. What astonishes me is that even after that 2000 Florida debacle, we<br>> didn't systematically put in place any system that would trace the act of<br>> voting to any kind of biometric identification system. When I saw that<br>> going on, weeks before the result was announced, I saw it as a huge victory<br>> for those who would decrease the margin of error for elections. I was<br>> appalled when nothing was done. I don't understand why the losing side in<br>> that didn't press for better accountability in elections.<br><br>Because they were the losing side, and thus unable to press.<br>"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding who to have for<br>dinner," and all that.<br><br>This may be encouraging certain Republicans' (and, to a lesser<br>extend, certain Democrats') "no compromise" attitude. Any<br>compromise could lead to an acceptance of an investigation that<br>was not totally under their control, which runs the risk of pointing<br>out that, in fact, they did steal the election.<br><br>With proof this blatant about the Presidential race, I would not be<br>surprised if a detailed investigation revealed similar tactics on a<br>smaller scale for many Congressional races - up to and including<br>the tactics employed to try to exclude non-Democrat/Republican<br>candidates from the ballot altogether.<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat<br></body>