Is this how the Republicans have stolen and will try again to steal elections?

(*cinnablount and trife excepted from aforementioned "mean things," of course -- but trife only because he prob. didn't bother to vote at all)

now it does

These conspiracy articles on Diebold--all tied into the owner being a Republican donor, mainly--are alarming only in the fact that voter fraud is not going to be eliminated by a non-emotional computer. The reason the national press corps has not grabbed onto this story is because all the conclusionary aspects of the story are based on circumstantial evidence. And in case you don't know, the people who originally came up with the conspiracy theory have been working their asses off faxing news releases for the past year. They've got a vested interest in a matter which is just as suspicious as the owner of Diebold.

Furthermore, it clouds the obvious: voter fraud is legendary in the US but nobody gave much of a shit about it until the incumbent vice president had a shitty campaign and got beaten by a dingbat Texan. Nobody seemed to mind that St. Louis or Chicago were ignoring voting laws, nobody seems to care that every big city purges voting rolls every year without almost no oversight--well, there is oversight but since most big cities are run by Democrats I guess maybe it's not such a big deal. And now, we're supposed to get suspicious just because a couple of elections in Georgia were blown by pollster--what about the polling in California that showed Davis having a chance?

There is a huge problem with the Diebold machines and that should be a huge story. But giving it play just because your team lost the game is kind of desperate. If we're going to be reasonably suspicious of whomever owns Diebold then can we be reasonably suspicious of the Democrat-controlled voter boards all across Florida? If we're going to go after voter fraud, let's go after it as a legitimate issue and not some political football.

http://www.talion.com/blackboxvoting.org.htm