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In reply to the discussion: The reality about "vote flipping" machines in NC and elsewhere [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)If I am going to go to the trouble of rigging a voting machine then there is no logical or rational reason to let the voter in on the secret. I just rig it so that they THINK they voting for A, while I record a vote for B. Now I don't flip ALL the votes for B, just one out of every five, or six, or whatever it takes to give me a plausible victory that doesn't exceed the margin of error in the polls.
If I am going to create errors that favor B, giving me the deniability of an error, while still making enough errors to help my guy, then why are other machines making the same error in the opposite direction?
This is like people who told me stories back in the 70s that there was actually a carburetor that allowed a car to get 100 MPG, but the car companies had conspired to keep it off the market. I then asked them why the auto makers would care, since it would hurt oil companies, not them. They would sell LOTS of cars if they had such a device, so they had ZERO reason to "conspire". Oil companies would have the most to lose, but they would have no way stopping the auto makers from selling these supercars, unless they bribed them to keep them off the market. The bribe would have to be big enough to cover all the lost sales the auto makers would lose, which would lower the oil companies' profits as much as if they just let it come to market.
Conspiracies do happen, but they have to make sense in the first place.