Reply #94: Until you people stop shouting "election fraud" every time... [View All]

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

...someone you don't like wins an election, nobody in their right mind is going to give two shits about anything you say. I, and a lot of other people, are well aware of the problems with electronic voting machines. Debugging and testing electronic devices is my line of work. I understand the dangers very well, thank you. But you guys have managed to so poison the waters with your nonsensical rhetoric about a worldwide conspiracy, shouting fraud any damn time you don't like the results, that it's impossible for someone to talk about the dangers of electronic voting in the US without being associated with the crap spewed forth by this extremely vocal, ill-informed, hyperpartisan subgroup within the movement. You've fucked the cause with your extreme politicization of the electronic voting issue.

I am glad there are saner, cooler heads commenting on this issue, because without them the campaign to get rid of these machines would still be wallowing in the sort of crap spewed forth by Bev Harris and her ilk, who have no traction with me or anyone else with half a brain. Fixing our election system should be a bipartisan issue, and that is completely and utterly lost on most of the people who blindly shout "fraud!" every time a conservative wins an election, even when that result has been predicted for months by political analysts of all stripes.

The results in France are in line with the pre-election polling. Anyone who even vaguely follows French politics understands what a massive uphill battle it was for Royal to get even as far as she did, considering the uselessness of her party as a campaigning organization, and the particular wave Sarkozy was riding.