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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:49 PM
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Hillary victory tainted by vote fraud claims
Hillary Clinton's victory celebrations in New Hampshire were short lived after Internet bloggers uncovered that the former first lady did better in precincts where the votes were counted by the much maligned Diebold voting machines, whereas in precincts where votes were hand counted, her rival Barack Obama was the clear winner.

Illinois Senator vying to become the first black President of the United States has already conceded victory and congratulated Clinton, but the blogosphere is buzzing with allegations of vote fraud directed at the Clinton camp.

Obama garnered 38.7% of the hand counted votes to Clinton's 36.2%, but Diebold machines gave Clinton 40.7% of the vote against Obama's 36.2%.

Bloggers have highlighted the fact that the candidate placed second from each method got exactly 36.2% of the vote.

They also point out that ppinion polls before the election placed Obama firmly in front in the Democrat race, with a 13 percentage point lead over Clinton.

81% of New Hampshire ballots were counted in secrecy by Diebold Election Systems, which was recently renamed Premier.

The ethical hacker Harri Hursti, who demonstrated how easy it was to crack Diebold optical scans in Leon County, Florida, testifying on September 19 before the New Hampshire legislature explaining significant vulnerabilities requiring urgent mitigations.

Election watchdog BlackBoxVoting.org provided video evidence showing that the company programming the machines, LHS Associates, and the company's president John Silver trying to discredit Hursti during the hearing.

New Hampshire used Diebold version 1.94w optical scan machines, the same model that was successfully cracked by Hursti.

But Clinton supporters dismissed the allegations pointing out that the Diebold machines were mostly used in urban areas, and that urban women were more likely to want to see a women becoming the President of the United States for the first time in history.

http://presscue.com/node/38170

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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:51 PM
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1. Aw Jeez!
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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:58 PM
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6. I concur!
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 11:06 PM
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8. I'm getting tired of this
I'm not even a Hillary supporter but, GODDAM, this is fucking ridiculous!

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Marrah_G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 11:07 PM
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9. Niether am I ...check Skinners last post. Tommorrow will be a brighter day
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FourScore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 11:08 PM
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10. Then why do you keep kicking it to the top?
Just sayin'...
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 11:09 PM
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12. Good point
last post.

Thread goes on the ignore pile, along with the rest of the manure.
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jgraz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:51 PM
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2. And that's why Hillary supporters should be yelling the loudest to get rid of these fucking machines
Whether the votes were counted correctly or not, no victory is legitimate unless the election process is transparent.
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:54 PM
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3. It doesn't help to bring a certain person back into the situation.
Her motives are suspect. You know who I mean.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:55 PM
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4. When will you start quoting Bev Harris?
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 10:56 PM
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5. How predictable was this?
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noise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 11:01 PM
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7. We aren't supposed to question the results
After all we don't want to be labeled unpatriotic conspiracy theorists. It's our fault for daring to question the integrity of a political system dominated by special interests and votes counted by private companies with proprietary software.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-09-08 11:09 PM
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11. malloy is talking about this tonight. brad (from bradblog) was on
for about 45 minutes discussing it w/him.

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