Subject: Re: Voting
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:57:38 +0000


i don't think they'll try to cancel the election; it would be a lot more effective to hijack the vote and retain some legitimacy that way.  over here, in the wake of the 2000 florida fiasco, a lot of states have adopted very dodgy electronic voting systems, many made by a bush backer called dibold, that are very suseptible to hacking and fraud.  given some terrorist activity, i can easily imagine a stolen election.  

the key is to make sure there is confusion and doubt during the period leading up the vote.  hell, they may not even have to cheat if they can produce a really, really impressive event.  and i'll bet they can produce a humdinger of an 'event' if they put their collective mind to it.

that's how i would do it.

roger


> 
> Carp wrote
> 
>  > The poor relief thing is what you've been nailing me for over the 
> years.  I just never
>  > posted the budget.  It's an anachronism left over from colonial america 
> and Indiana > is the only state to retain it as an elected position.   It's 
> a half-million for poor relief > and running the office and another $200K 
> or so used to fund a homeless shelter,
>  > a soup kitchen and a free grocery store.   It probably should never be a 
> government > function in the ideal but since it is I grabbed it when it 
> came up--I needed the job.
> 
> Well, who am I to condemn somebody who needed a job because the kids
> were getting tired of going barefoot (said he, in a complete reversal of 
> previous condemnations).
> 
>  > Also, and I never diminish this, Kerry saw heavy combat and still feels
>  > guilty over it.  Bush didn't and doesn't.   Economic ruin is one thing;
>  > military adventurism is another.
> 
> Point taken.
> 
> But I can't help remembering that "the lesser evil" is what landed us
> with Tony Blair.
> 
>  > I seriously wonder if this year's elections will come off though.
> 
> I just watched the Scottish news, and they had some Labour MP,
> one of Tony's cronies, being interviewed about some completely
> invented non-story about some alleged security threat to installations
> in Scotland. If we are getting this sort of hysterical nonsense
> even here, maybe, in the hothouse atmosphere of the USA,
> Bush and co could come up with a scary enough threat
> to justify having to "postpone" the elections "temporarily".
> 
> Dave C
> 
>