" why those terrible republicans didn't fix the 2006 election as well, perhaps you can enlighten us. "

1) There's been too much public attention.

2) You can only 'bend things so far' without getting noticed, except in a totalitarian state with total media censorship - the USA is not THAT for gone yet!

3) The fact that the electronic machines can produce no physical tape of figures is now well known (as is the facts that some machines produced nonsense figures compared with the number of real voters, as well as the easily publicly demonstrated fact that the machines could be easily hacked over the internet...) - if you ARE trying any sort of 'conspiracy' - you will certainly tiptoe away from anything that may get found out. A certain CEO who boasted that "he would deliver the votes" - his company made the machines - has now had to go public and say that he was a damn fool for making such a stupid statement with so much potential political fallout.

4) Piss off enough people that you had hoodwinked, and they WILL change their votes - this is the most persuasive argument of all....

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