Reply #130: 2006 proves nothing about 04, 02, 00. It does raise questions, however. [View All]

[O.M.B.inOhio]

The success of Democrats in '06 raises questions in my mind, too, about whether Diebols, ES&S, Triad, etc. are all working to support Republican interests. But then I remember the terrorist threat at the BoE in Warren Cty Ohio, impossible leaps in Bush votes, "glitches" that 99% of the time favored Bush, the intentional thwarting of the Ohio recount (including non-random selection of the 3% count you advocate and "cheat sheets" posted by Triad employees, deviation from exit polls.... Less evidence of fraud was found in Ukraine, and the world (inclu. USA) rejected that outcome at the same time we were clamoring for answers here. Why hasn't election raw data been released? Until some of that is answered, I can't accept that Bush was ever elected.
So why did 2006 work well for Dems? Did they try "the fix" and fail? Did they skew results less than they needed? Were they counting on their non-tech schemes to work better? (These seemed to be on hiatus, too.) Was there too much attention on fraud, andn they let this one slide. Is the Executive most important to them? Did they orchestrate anxious MSM stories about election security and throw this midterm in order to put the issue to bed in the minds of voters and legistlators? Was there never the capacity to fix elections?
Whatever the truth is, the results in 2006 prove nothing about 2004 and prior, IMHO.