This is what paranoia leads to:
The last few posts here have been spent discussing how two people
mucked around with a computer system to create winning tickets that
shouldn’t, to enrich themselves to the tune of three million dollars.
Now we have in Florida (a place rife with election shenanigans) brand
new and untested electronic voting systems, to completely replace paper
balloting with electronic votes. And we have reports from Drudge that
people “voted
for McBride, but the machine counted it as Bush. It did this three
times. The polling worker finally said, ‘We have to reprogram this
machine. Another person was having the same trouble while I was there.'” And there are now no paper ballots to check against.
And of course, Voter News Service
took themselves out of the exit poll business yesterday, because the
numbers they were getting seemed to be completely at odds with what the
actual votes appeared to be.
How much is a House seat worth? Certainly more than three million
dollars…
As I said, this is what paranoia leads to– combined with lack of trust
in the people in charge.