Do you think Presidential Elections are rigged?
84756
Read about Diebold used in Ohio. In Ohio we had 247,672 votes thrown out, the Bu$h's margin was only 136,483.\nMost of the voters who did not vote in Ohio were poor  minorities. They had long lines and limited voting machines. The wealthy voters got the voting machines. Also minority voters must leave work to vote, without pay, well off  voters vote while being paid the same.. There is lots of evidence to support wide spread fraud in Ohio.
1107549
The last two elections were rigged why do you think the repukes will do any different this time. We need to go back in time to paper ballots and a equal election board in every precinct to ensure free, open and honest elections. If it takes dipping my finger in ink to ensure that I do not vote twice and the dead people do not vote repuglican then that is what needs to be done.  Something is wrong with the repuke's if they do not want this type of an election. When it becomes more important that a candidate is elected then to have an election that everyone can look to as fair we have lost the American revolution and might as well give ourselves up to a dictatorship.
948483
I don't know about Democrats, or for that matter Republicans. I can tell you as an Independent that you cannot be taken seriously and your accusations cannot be trusted. Calling the election a fraud before it even occurs makes any points you try to make biased and questionable, just like the boy who cried wolf. You are trying to advance an agenda and lack any viable proof to support your claims. I will remind you that in the last 3 election cycles that the only people convicted of election fraud were Democrats, not Republicans.
56413
Egads! Are you STILL dwelling on this? IT WAS 6 YEARS AGO! Look ahead and quit living in the past.\n\nYeah... Bush "cheated" by finding a way to control every voting machine in the state of Florida! Not just that, but the Republican party had to rig the rest of the states so ONLY Florida would be left to decide the vote, just so his brother could change things if it didn't work out!\n\nOne small, teensy, miniscule little problem... THE PRESIDENCY IS DECIDED ON ELECTORAL VOTES, NOT POPULAR VOTES!!!! Nobody has bothered to come up with the method of cheating THERE.\n\nInstead, the Liberal press and conspiracy theorists seem to enjoy telling everyone how the voting public in Florida was "misled" or (love this one) "disenfranchised"!! HEY, FLORIDA!! Don't you love how the rest of the nation is being told how absolutely STUPID you are; that you don't even know how to vote for a candidate of your choice??\n\nNow, will people give up this crap and focus on REAL life, HERE AND NOW???\n\nRascal77s: I did bare my teeth a little bit, but I didn't really mean to take a bite. Oh, well... blame it on me being an old, cranky conservative. ;-)
1130654
Here is some evidence that justifies your concern:\n\nhttp://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen\nhttp://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2006/1995\nhttp://uscountvotes.org/ucvAnalysis/OH/Ohio-Exit-Polls-2004.pdf\nhttp://www.commondreams.org/views06/0330-22.htm\n\nAs for what to do about it, both paper ballots and transparency of voting machine source code are necessary. \n\nThere are also other ways to steal an election:\nhttp://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/06/con06219.html\n\nWith so many different methods of cheating, there is no one way to prevent it. What needs to change is the Us vs Them attitude, to an attitude of doing what's best for all citizens.
812821
It is so hard to believe how many American's do NOT understand that this country has most likely NEVER had honest elections or a legitimate political process! Only public claims by political insiders that it is legitimate! The cheating did not start with E-voting machines rather this method makes who gets paid off cheaper when producing the numeric results regardless of what method of cheating has taken place! If banks & credit card companies can find ways to curtail fraud surely we can do like wise with a voting system, But i do not think it should be keept secret & you need a record of the ballot plus post it publically on a county website for all to see & access in attempt to keep things honest!
843380
How you be noing that you won, yet, yo? Da polls just been close. I be spectin there been some cheatin goin on, yo!
715483
It is very disconcerting to hear that many of the new voting machines do not give receipts, or copies to the voters, or to anyone else.  If there is a malfunction or fraud, there will be no way to verify the results and there will be no possibility for a recount.  This may cast a big cloud over the election for voters in either party, but especially for the losers.  I don't like that news.
685533
I think people thought he was safe and didn't vote for him.  Although there are people that say the voting is rigged.  I guess we will never know.
1023667
I am certain the election was stolen both times by the low handed illegal tactics of Bush and Company. It was close for sure but stolen never-the-less.\nThe sort of tactics used to steal the elections is exactly the same sort of tactics he is using now to spy on the American people.\nCan't someone somewhere expose this guy for what he is in such a way to show even the religious right the error of their thinking.
1159137
Did he win? I thought he stold the election!
830960
If you are writing about the USA, I am impressed that the voters apparently jerked W's chain.\n\nOf course they elected the douche bag in the first place.\n\nMaybe some sort of meritocracy? What do you suggest?
1106538
It is Diebold. And Bush's cousin is not the owner. You were hoping that Americans were dumb enough to believe false urban legends you spread.\n\nSmart Americans also know that the Diebold machines were a small portion of the voting machines and devices used during either of the elections Bush was in, and were not able to swing an election.
921844
Is it solveable well it better be and this past election demonstrated how.  Show ALL politicians your screw up your gone and so is your power.  \n\nBut, come on take your blinders off reality is ALL politicians are easily manipulated by the system of special interest groups.\n\nLet's hope that was it was for our country's sake.
914587
I think, in any race where the vote is close, the apparent loser, regardless of party, will cry foul.\n\nThat's not necessarily a bad thing.  It's evident that we have some serious problems running clean elections in this country.  Every time an election result is challenged, it reveals flaws in the different voting systems that can then (hopefully) be remedied.  More importantly, it reveals those flaws to the public, who can then see for themselves just how hard their elected officials are actually trying to run clean elections.  Or aren't, as the case may be.\n\nI heard a poitical analyst on a radio staion speaking recently (sorry, I didn't catch who it was) and he made an excellent point about how the Republican Party wins.  He said, they don't try for a landslide victory.  They try for 1 or 2% of the vote.  \n\nI'm not claiming, with that quote, that Republicans are cheating at the polls.  My point is, with the current flawed elections processes, while 1 or 2% should be enough to win an election, it is well within the margin of error, no matter how many times the votes are counted.  No matter who is declared the winner, I'd like to be certain they actually won.\n\nGetting our elections processes cleaned up across the country, and having an accurate way to verify disputed votes, is the only way to be sure we will get accurate counts.  That will only happen in response to public pressure.  If voters feel there's something hinky about the election results in their district/state, I hope they scream loud and long, and get to the bottom of it, no matter how long it takes, or how much it costs.
771039
Yes, totally. Anyone with access to those machines can easily change the program and basically get whatever results they what. And the memory cards they use to save the votes can easily be changed after the fact, too. And the recounts are not legit, either. I don't trust anything like that anymore.
834997
Way too soon.  Some of them "predict" winners based on incomplete poll results from the eastern states.  This is an evident attempt by the liberal media  to influence the elections by activating certain voters in the western states, which come in later with their votes.  This was never more apparent than in the 2004 presidential election.  The practice should be outlawed.  No results should ever be reported until the last polls have closed in Alaska and Hawaii.