Reply #22: I don't think this is as wide-spread as you believe [View All]

The reason is because with electronic voting, you don't need a huge number of people to fix a vote.

e-Voting without a paper trail is parallel to sharing music through Napster. You may think WTF does music have to do with e-Voting? It's a matter of scalability. That is before Napster, in order for someone to reproduce a tape/album/song and give it to millions of people, it would require a huge amount of labor or manufacturing facility. Similary before e-Voting, election fraud to actually affect the outcome of a NATIONAL election would require massive amounts of people. With eVoting it is very easy for even a SINGLE person to change the outcome.

Therefore, to answer your original question, I think the motive lies in this administration's desire to dominate the middle east. They had plans to do so before they even took office. It really is about greed and oil. They see other nations rapid industrialization a threat to their wealth and the easiest way to control the industrialization of the rest of the world is to control the oil. There was no way this was going to happen under Gore, and they only needed to fix a single state. The first term of the Bush admin hasn't been successful in accomplishing those goals, so they need another term. However, politically it wasn't going to be possible and they actually needed three things: OH, FL *and* an overwhelming win on the popular vote.

If I had to come up with motive, that's it, and it doesn't require as many people as one would think to accomplish the task.