Could a potential third party make inroads with this strategy?

leftofthedial

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Mon Oct-02-06 09:43 PM
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Could a potential third party make inroads with this strategy?

Could a third party have success by borrowing from both of the current parties (or both branches of the one current corporate party)?

1. Borrow from the repukes and hack the Diebold cheat boxes. Surely a third party could find smarter techies than the repukes have.

2. Borrow from the Dems and deny that election fraud happened.

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Frances

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Mon Oct-02-06 10:01 PM
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1. I have been around long enough to have seen

Anderson run as an independent, Ross Perot run as an independent, and Nader run as an independent. We are all much better off to stay in the Dem party and try to change it from the inside.

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skipos

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Mon Oct-02-06 10:03 PM
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2. Even T Roosevelt running as an indy only split the vote and enabled a

Wilson win in 1912.

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leftofthedial

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Mon Oct-02-06 10:12 PM
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4. but TR couldn't hire a few hackers

and "win" like he could now.

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leftofthedial

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Mon Oct-02-06 10:11 PM
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3. but the independents and third parties

(a couple of your examples ran as Libertarians or Greens, not as independents)

never had so many voting machines that are so easy to hack before.

Today, a third party could "win" with just a few clever accesses of a few machines.

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LiberalFighter

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Mon Oct-02-06 10:52 PM
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5. A 3rd party will only become viable when they build their base locally

county by county... congressional district by congressional district... state by state!

It will NEVER happen by going for the Presidential race.

Look at all the failed 3rd party elections that have failed since the beginning.

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leftofthedial

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Mon Oct-02-06 11:11 PM
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6. a few hackers working on the Diebold security holes

Edited on Mon Oct-02-06 11:12 PM by leftofthedial

and ANYBODY could win the Presidency.

And with the new dictatorial powers granted to the Executive Branch by the idiot repukes, that's all you need to take over the world.

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snowbear

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Mon Oct-02-06 11:15 PM
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7. It's election time & THIRD PARTY threads aren't smiled upon

This is DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND ----

---- Not "Third Party Underground"

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leftofthedial

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Mon Oct-02-06 11:32 PM
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8. this is a question

not a call to arms.

Come November, I'll be voting a straight Democratic ticket for the 32nd year in a row.

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JeffR

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Mon Oct-02-06 11:33 PM
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9. Most hyperkinetic smilies I've seen all day!

Wow!

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Bucky

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Mon Oct-02-06 11:33 PM
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10. The vote counting process is sufficiently diversified to prevent outsiders

from hacking the system. Stealing the 04 election was a case of death by a thousand cuts. With all their advantages, they still left a hell of a trail. But the theft was so segmented into diverse elements that it doesn't look coordinated--and probably wasn't. Individual groups simply understood they should do what they could to swing things Bush's way. This leaves no paper trail back to Rove and, should one cell get busted in the act, allow the other cells to survive and function.

It's not a grand conspiracy, but a collusion of corrupt interests, that we're up against. The simple answer to your question is "No, your premise is hopelessly naive."

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