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Recently an election integrity activist asked if anyone had done the math to see how much of a margin the Democrats would need to keep Diebold from stealing an election. This was my answer.

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Yes, the math has been done. A simple vote-flipping program has proven conclusively that no amount of votes could stop Diebold from stealing an election.

Say you have a district with one million voters. All except one of them vote for candidate A, and one person alone votes for candidate B.

By means of a simple vote-flipping program, such as was demonstrated on the recent Princeton University video (I think they used George Washington and Benedict Arnold as their "candidates"), Diebold can have the vote tally show the reverse, that all but one person voted for candidate B, and only one voted for candidate A.

But since people in that district are apt to know that most of them voted for candidate A, when Diebold flips the votes so that candidate B wins, Congress has to swear candidate B in quickly in order to prevent a recount.

If they want to run a slightly more sophisticated program, they can have the percentages come out closer instead of just flipping the vote, but the actual number of votes for a candidate has no effect whatsoever on preprogrammed results. If the central tabulator is programmed to give 52% of the votes to candidate B, and 48% of the votes to candidate A, it doesn't matter how many people vote for either one.

 

I'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, (more...)
 

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Forgot to mention. by Mark E. Smith on Saturday, Sep 30, 2006 at 4:16:24 PM
and in some cases... by Tony Forest on Sunday, Oct 1, 2006 at 3:44:25 AM