Reply #17: He has allowed ES&S to monopolize the vote counting business, [View All]

[Stevepol]

in FL, which to my mind is pretty shrewd. I think Kathy Dopp and others who have analyzed the results in FL indicate that the suspicious precincts and counties in FL were largely ES&S, while the Diebold counties ended up pretty close to the pre-election polling and projections. ES&S is equally rigging elections, in fact probably more elections than Diebold, but they are much more shrewd about it. They keep a low profile and they offer the optiscans which seemingly can be audited.

Of course, what states REQUIRE audits for ALL ELECTIONS? Mondale, I believe, won the MN senatorial elections in 02. He had a substantial lead in the polls going in and I doubt very seriously that he lost. ES&S at that time had, and probably still has, enough of the vote counting franchise in MN to steal the election and I think they did. If Al Franken decides to run for office in MN, he'd better become conversant with computer technology. Almost certainly that's what will decide the election.

Jeb and ES&S are sympatico. Their criminality, if it exists, is better hidden. As the Baptists say, "A sin well hidden is already half forgiven."