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                                             November 29, 2006
   
  Why was my          
  prediction wrong    
  for election                             
  fraud in 2006?                           
                                           (Perhaps I need to 
              One problem: just            stop writing down 
              because the machines         my predictions...)
              in Virginia are              
              riggable doesn't mean
              they're riggable *by                    
              Republicans*.           It depends on                  
                                      the details of     
                                      your threat        
                                      model.  E.g.       
                                      do they need                  
                                      access to the         Or are Diebold    
                                      machines to           Accu-vote machines 
                                      patch the software?   shipped by the 
  Why was there so                    Do they need          factory in a 
  little (obvious)                    access to the         rigged condition? 
  fraud?                              memory cards? 
 
     Actually, there 
     *was* some:                                               
                    
     I've heard some reports of problems          
     in Florida and Ohio already.                                     

        That NIST story alludes to Florida problems.

        The Cleveland "Free Press" guys think
        a few congressional seats may have been
        lifted.

    It's possible that the great
    Democratic landslide should
    have been even larger,                What I would like to
    and the Republicans muted it          believe is that the
    only by as much as they dared.        activities of the
                                          "fraudies" such as
                                          myself, helped
                                          (a) wake up the watchdogs
                                          (b) frighten the thieves

                                              That HBO documentary
                                              was pretty amazing:
                                              "Hacking Democracy".

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