How to Steal an Election
It used to be that to steal an election you had to be better than the other candidate. Then you only needed to look better than the other candidate. Then you needed destroy your opponents life. Now you only need to hack the machines. Here's how.
I don't know about you, but I think Yellow Dog has a real shot this year. Thanks to Jeff Williams for the tip.
I miss the old days where you needed to be better than your opponent to win.
Comments
Since I happened to have lived the "good old days" I can tell you there were a lot of shenanigans going on then too, but surely not as easily accomplished as modern technology has made it today. Precinct bosses controlled blocks of votes, unions controlled blocks of votes, but the individual voter could go into the voting booth and vote the way he wanted regardless of how he was told to vote and no one knew the difference. This can not be done now since individual votes can be traced. And votes for the "wrong" party can simply be eliminated. Hate it! But it seems to be the future and the bad guys are winning. BB
Posted by: Brenda Bowers | October 27, 2006 9:45 AM