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echo: pol_disorder
to: Bob Ackley
from: Ed Hulett
date: 2006-09-01 06:28:54
subject: (1/2) Cheating chips and

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:07:14 GMT
"Bob Ackley -> Ross Cassell"  wrote:

 BA> Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to BOB SAKOWSKI:

 RC>> Hello BOB!

 RC>> 30 Aug 06 09:35, you wrote to BOB ACKLEY:

 BS>>> Many others share his analysis of electronic voting as an
 BS>>> eminently corruptable system.

 RC>> Any balloting system is corruptable.

 BA> True.  Even paper ballots - some years back an acquaintance noted
 BA> that the trash
 BA> bin outside the polling place I used was *full* of marked ballots the
 BA> day after the
 BA> election.  But it is *much* easier to "adjust" the results
 BA> electronically where there
 BA> is no paper trail.

It has been pointed out to you that there *IS* a paper trail with all
electronic voting machines.

 BA> Keep in mind Stalin's dictum - "It's not who votes that counts, it's
 BA> who counts the votes."

Does your conspiracy theories give you warm fuzzies?

Ed

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