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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous and the Supposed Hack. [View all]brush
(53,784 posts)You wrote that:
"The GOP showed its incompetence in the misbegotten ORCA system. If, in fact, there had been some sort of plan to flip the votes in Ohio, the GOP was incompetent in that as well."
I don't about that. Were you not alive in 2004? It's been pretty well proven that they stole the '04 election in Ohio with computer hacking. You can go online and find Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s report on that.
Something stopped them this time. It may have been Anonymous or something else. I posted this a few days ago about it:
Ohio SofS Husted saw results from other states coming in unexpectedly for the President, and knowing all eyes were on him and Ohio, ditched his and Rove's plans to use the software patches he installed a few days before the election to switch votes to Romney as Ohio's results were suddenly not going to be as decisive as once thought. He probably also mulled over the thought of whether it was worth going to jail for Rove's fat ass.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of anyone having the ability to hack our elections and change legitimate results, be that the repugs or anyone else. But let's not under estimate the repugs. They've shown they will try anything to win. This time they lacked the element of surprise that they had before as everyone, including poll watchers and teams of attorneys, had eyes trained on Ohio. They may very well try something entirely different next time because they know with the changed demographics of the country they can't win appealing mostly to angry whites. I say let's advocate to get an accurate paper trail system of voting installed for our elections that will eliminate vote hacking.