could the votes have been miscounted

[dogindia]

once they learned how to do it during Bush that could have been done yesterday.

[cali]

1. all across the country? In blue states like MA, MD and VT?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

2. Fraud At Polls

[2naSalit]

3. Sure

right as they were being "flipped".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. In a few individual situations, maybe.

But when you consider that there are many different voting methods all over the country, that is very, very unlikely to account for what happened. The basic reason, I think, has to do with the deluge of "dark" money allowed by Citizens United, combined with voter suppression laws that went into effect, combined with the usual midterm voter apathy. That perfect storm made it much easier than the improbable rigging of thousands of voting machines.

[taught_me_patience]

8. *this* n/t

[Bobcat]

5. Battleground States

What was the method of voting used in the "battleground" states? "Flipping" votes in this handful of states is not an insurmountable task. We know votes were being "flipped" by machines in NC.

[dogindia]

9. can you tell us more about NC

vote flipping. How did you hear this? Was it widespread? or just a few machines. Thanks.

[Blue Owl]

6. Turtles do have flippers

[bigwillq]

7. My republican uncle thinks they were in CT

Dems won pretty much statewide in that state.

But the likely answer is, no, I don't believe they were miscounted.

Were there some instances of voter suppression, and abnormalities? Probably.

But, overall, I don't think they were miscounted.

Were they miscounted in 2008?