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Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
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Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:23:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
   4) I don’t trust Dubya’s administration in the slightest

This is not a small thing. See these newsbits:

An open invitation to election fraud

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/09/23/bev_harris/index.html

Not only is the country’s leading touch-screen voting system so badly designed that votes can be easily changed, but its manufacturer is run by a die-hard GOP donor who vowed to deliver his state for Bush next year.

How George W. Bush Won the 2004 Presidential Election

http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.html

Purging voter lists is just the beginning: the U.S. has embraced a form of electronic voting that is unreliable, unverifiable and funded by the radical Christian right.

Inside A U.S. Election Vote Counting Program

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/scoop/S00065.htm

Edit: excellent site for the full story.

So yeah, who knows when a revolt might go down. Seriously, this is not the representative democracy I read about in schoolbooks.

And Kooties wants to take away the peacekeeper, the equalizer, the final check and balancer of the system.

No thanks.

-- Hop-Frog



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  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote: <snip all good links that I'll spend time readig...> (...) You'd think that if the 'equalizer' is the 'final check and balancer of the system', then the system would have that mandated somewhere, (...) (21 years ago, 23-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Voting Fraud (was Re: Sticking my etc.)
 
More on this stuff today... Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org (URL) This appears to be a public relations gaffe of staggering proportions on Diebold's part. It's not like bunging the terms "Diebold election fraud" into Google brings up only that (...) (21 years ago, 1-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Sticking my gun where it doesn't belong...
 
(...) And if there was a revolt today against Dubya, why do you think it would not be a war time scenario, or that the opposition wouldn't form into an army? Or that the armed opposition wouldn't have come from home? And the point was that you kept (...) (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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