Reply #48: MarkusQ on # of voting machines witheld equals # votes suppressed. [View All]

[Helga Scow Stern]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x80851#82026

You can easily cap the votes in a given precinct if you have control over how many voting machines they get.

Say each machine can take a voter every three minutes. That's twenty an hour, or 480 if they work for 24 hours straight (meaning the lines reach 14 hours long). If people give up earlier, you don't get as many votes, so if people only are willing to put up with four hour lines, you'll only get 280 votes per machine.

If you put (say) three machines in a precinct with 2000 registered voters, you've suppressed at least 500, and probably more like 1200 of them without lifting a finger. Do this selectively, and you've rigged the election in broad daylight.

--MarkusQ