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Edited on Sun Oct-30-05 03:13 AM by Mass
He has a point, but the point is not against you, poster on DU, but against election fraud forums yelling too loudly that our votes do not count.
There is a point to be made that, the more you say that their vote does not count, the less people will vote. I guess this is what he meant. Now, he certainly said it very abruptly and that was not justified.
If you look closely, people who don't vote are more Democrat than Republican, which is one reason why Republicans are trying to frighten them not to vote by many means (intimidations, long lines, ...). It is still not clear to me whether the 04 campaign against BBV did not play against us by keeping some people out of the vote.
The most plausibe BBV elaction fraud scenario has this in particular that it could be relatively easily prevented if more people would vote. The scenario would be to change systematically 1 Kerry vote to a Bush vote every 100 or 50 votes. The change cant be too high so that people do not notice it too obviously, just enough to change the result). For this to succeed, the initial result must be close. If you switch 1 vote every 100 votes, it will succeed if the spread is lower than 2 %, for example.
So, by saying that our vote will not count (obviously not you, but the TV reports and places like that), people are involuntarily helping the Repugs someway.
Of course, it is important to fight against the BBV, but many organizations are doing it poorly, not explaining that the best way to beat this fraud is to get the spread as big as possible and therefore to push people to vote.
(but the person who answered in the thread is a definitive idiot)
I hope it is clear enough. It is getting late and I should go to bed.
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