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Comment Re:Ballot stuffing isn't how you steal an election (Score 1) 211

Except politicians and news disseminators are both taught that Thomas Hobbes is a great guy and Hobbes' state is necessary to keep evil individuals, which is all of them, in line, so basically politicians and news organizations' interests are aligned.
In Indiana, I am asked for my health insurance and state ID every time I go to the doctor's, so there's another reason to have identification.

Comment Re:demand an manual court of each vote and if you (Score 1) 211

You seriously need to study magic. You are woefully naive about the fine art of vote-rigging. I suggest watching Penn and Teller's Fool Me and Googling the hints they drop after each magician's performance. On top of that, they have the ability to mess with things when all of the tallies are brought together and any number of places between where the votes are cast and the announcement of the final results.

Comment Re:Easy way to avoid the issue (Score 1) 211

Of course this is assuming that anybody with any real interest in detecting election fraud is allowed anywhere near the ballots. Politicians generally like their elections undetectably rigged, makes it easier to keep anybody not interested in keeping the masses under the thumb of Thomas Hobbes' State away.

Comment Re: what Trump said and meant (Score 0) 211

Which is where "...while possibly managing to stay within the letter of the law." part of my post comes it. Having permission to act in bad faith is still acting in bad faith. From: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics... talking about his Blackberry:

"Be very careful. I got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that capture the data," Powell advised.

So, I'd say Powell was acting in bad faith, too.

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