I Predict: Rs Have Conceded Election, Will Challenge Results In Court

The Rs announced that they would spend $40MM this election in negative ads aimed at the "dirt" they
had on Dems. That might have worked pre-Foley, but the worm has now turned and their chances are non existent
to hold the House. They are close to losing the Senate. $100MM in negative ads wouldn't work at this point.

This is too much of an uphill battle for them to fight and win in 4 weeks. So their only real chance is to
challenge the vote itself after the election. They will blame it on e-voting, stating that the Ds have been in the
forefront on criticizing e-voting as unreliable. They will also say that post-Foley, Americans deserve to know
that their Congress critters were elected fairly and without prejudice or machine malfunction. They will frame the issue
as their "protecting the voting rights of all Americans, no matter what their political stripe."

They have the money to pay for challenges and recounts across the country, but they will concentrate on the closest
races. They will need to turn only 1-3 Senate races and maybe 10 House races to their favor to keep control of Congress.

Ultimately, they can keep control of both houses simply by keeping the elections up in the air and uncertified through the
day that Congress reconvenes in 2007...at which point, Denny Hastert can seat anyone he wants in the House (citing his recent
actions in the House as precedent) and declare that the House recognizes them as the legitimate winner. He may even seat
a few Ds to make it look bipartisan while, of course, keeping an R majority in the House.

Rs have a very good record on "winning" elections in the courts (or otherwise) and they have no morals, so it's a road that they
are more than willing to travel.

Paranoid, yes, but why shouldn't I be?

was that they might be planting a seed. In case they lose. How like them.

hammering e-voting for the better part of 4 months?

The Rs have laid a groundwork that they believe can handle events as traumatic as Foleygate.

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Because they always find some new level of deceit - and they still do control most media.

I predict they will SET UP some Democrats with the electronic machines and make the code TRACEABLE to someone in the Dem party.

They had the element of surprise when the Supreme "Court" appointed Bush -- such blatant election thieving had rarely been done in broad daylight.

And while it's not to say they won't try it, I'd like to think that even the Dems will be savvy enough to raise holy hell.

Plus, this could backfire if previous "elections" become part of the evidence trail in such cases...

This won't happen in a bubble. The Rs will make an issue of it this time because it's their ox being gored (no pun intended).

Flyers giving false info on polling stations, saying Ds are to vote on the day after election day, if you or anyone in your family has ever been arrested you can't vote or you go to jail for 10 years, etc. All stops are being pulled.

They will use every trick in the book. You can count on it.

Voter Suppression
Voter Intimidation
Vote Fraud
Ballot Fraud
Ballot Manipulation

They'll lose ballots... Misdirect ballots... Cage voters...
Contest voters... Create some sort of 'poll tax' disguised
as a so-called 'Voter ID Card'.

Steal what they can with electronic machines.
Steal what they can with mechanical machines.

Why do you think they were so reluctant to renew the Right-to-Vote Act
awhile back?

guess what, they are out to get you, and me and everybody else

My prediction is... don't count them chickens, or scrambled eggs... I predict nothing will change. This does not not meant I won't vote or work for change... but as stalin said, it does not matter who voets but who counts the vote

this issue has being ignored for years. And I wouldn't put it past them either.