do you think the election was rigged?
Chatturgahstan
11-05-2005, 06:28
so, what do you think?
an interesting video relating to the topic (aprox 30mb if memory serves me right):
the original testimony of Clinton Eugene Curtis (http://bulk.ctyme.com/curtiz.wmv)
if that's too big, the audio is played near the end of this file:
hi quality (http://www.rantradio.com/shows/newsreal/download.php?episode=52&bitrate=64 )
low quality (http://www.rantradio.com/shows/newsreal/download.php?episode=52&bitrate=24)
it's aprox 43mins in i think, but the whole show is kind of interesting.
Voting "irregularites" in Ohio point to 'yes'.
Cannot think of a name
11-05-2005, 06:36
I'm in the middle of a tech rehersal right now, so if I start a video I'm gonna get killed-so I'm just going to throw something out there. This last election was very tense and people on both sides had the distinct impression that thier very lives and the good of the world was at stake. In that climate I would believe people on both sides took it on themselves to 'nudge' things one way or the other. I don't know if one nudge or another made the difference, but I'm sure it happened.
Patra Caesar
11-05-2005, 06:40
In the 2000 Presidential election I think there was more 'irregularities,' with political parties scrambling for anything they can clutch.
Incenjucarania
11-05-2005, 06:42
I'd be surprised if any presidential election in history has been free of tampering.
I sure hope it was, the alternative isn't very conforting.
Californian Refugees
11-05-2005, 06:47
I think "rigged" is too strong a word. But yes, of course there were underhand things going on. What do you expect when all the participants are politicians?
Lost Crusaders
11-05-2005, 07:01
Well put. Welcome to American, an possibly all, politics. There hasn't been a singal election in this country that hasn't seen some sort of illeagal campaigning and/or voter fraud. The best example is Kennedy vs. Nixon in 1960, remember the 10,000 ballots "found" on a Chicago sidewalk on election night? And it just so happened the 95% of those votes were for Kennedy. The only reason this example is so infamous is beacuse of its publicity due to the "mob theory" of the Kennedy Assasination. These kinds of things surely happen in every election, in every state, especially swing states in close elections, however few ever become nationally known. But this kind of activity durring an election doesn't make the election "rigged", it makes it normal.
Pantylvania
11-05-2005, 07:07
But this kind of activity durring an election doesn't make the election "rigged", it makes it normal.Actually, that does make it rigged, independently of the normality.
Ohio almost for sure had more voting machines per voter in red precincts than in blue precincts. Independent stories from multiple witnesses are hard to dismiss. The same evidence goes for changing votes during the recount.