Reply #28: Totally agree with this post. [View All]

Every vote in every state in this primary season, the pundits try to explain the "results" as if these results had some sort of relationship to the actual vote that took place.

But as is admitted even by the manufacturers of he voting machines themselves, there's no way to prove that the "result" announced is the actual count of the way people voted. Brad Friedman just recently challenged anybody to prove that any vote on a DRE ever cast by anyone at any time was ever cast as reported.

I like Obama, but I don't think he has the foggiest notion of what happened with the vote count in 02, 04, and so far in 08 (and 05 Ohio initiatives thrown in and probably every other vote since 2000) and will almost certainly happen again in November. This is the ONE ISSUE on which all the others depend and yet the candidate himself and his cronies show almost no awareness of it.

When the election comes around, there will be the usual slew of news reports about the voting machines and people will be aware of the problem. Then, when the election happens, it will be the same process all over again. Obama will lead in the polls going in, the early exit polls will show him winning and people will be swept up in hope and then overnight, the vote will suddenly take an inexplicable turn to the right and the pundits will begin to "explain" why this happened based on some assumption or other (anything but the obvious vote theft machines) and we'll have another four years of criminal government.

I'm hoping this does not happen, but I can't see any reason it won't.