eventually realizing the charade.

I believe the only reason there wasn't more major manipulation to defeat Obama in 2008 was because Rove was about to be fingered in court just before the 2008 elections. Rove skated only because key witness Mike Donnell died in a plane crash before he was able to testify. Connell was Bush's ITT guru.

Read up on
Mike Connell
Stephen Spoonamore
King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell

Machine manipulation still works.

Vincardog is right. They're not mutually exclusive.

GOP will use whatever it takes.

I'm sure there will be hacking in this election.

Races have to be very close for hacking to swing it one way or the other or it becomes too obvious. Don't think they didn't hack votes in 2008. I sure they did but the race wasn't that close. The repugs will be at it again this time with hacking, voter ID laws, poll intimidators, purging, pre-election day and election misinformation campaigns with flyers, postcards, and phone calls etc. They'll also try caging (sending postcards to registered dem voters that if returned, are used to delete voters from the rolls. These voters could have moved and not yet registered at their new address). I'm sure there are some vote suppression dirty tricks that I've missed but count on them all being used by the repugs. That's why we have to keep registering and working hard until election day.