Reply #9: He figured it out so quickly because like me and others who'd been [View All]

following the e-voting issue in the months leading up to the election, it was a given that it would be hacked.

I was sitting there on Nov. 2 watching the returns with friends I'd worked on the campaign with and when things started to turn, I was saying, "It's the damn machines, they did it again, this is the third time!I knew they were going to do it!" And I was absolutely freaking out because I knew exactly what you said above: "People voted Kerry, the machines switched to Bush. If we can't prove it and Kerry concedes, we'll never, ever have a real vote in this country again. NEVER." And here I was freaking out and my friends were looking at me with these blank stares.

I'd been talking about it for months and trying to get them interested in the bills in the house and senate s. 1980 and HB 2239, but they just weren't getting it.

All during the campaign when people would talk about if Kerry would win or not, I'd say he would for sure if it's not hacked but it will be hacked and it just depends on how badly, and whether we can get enough of a margin to offset the hacking. What I didn't realize was that it didn't matter how much of a margin we had, they'd make sure they had just that much more.

So for any of us who had really been following the history of e-voting and knew the connections with the companies and the Bushies, it was a given when the numbers started changing. I was feeling really alone at that time because none of my friends knew what I was talking about and were buying into the "we lost" thing. All during the campaign when I'd talk about it, they would look at me with these blank stares,and that's what they were doing on election night. But then when all the articles by Thom Hartman, etc. started coming out, and I started emailing them, they came around and said, "You were right.Now I get it."

I didn't know about DU then. I wouldn't have felt so alone if I had. It was awful not knowing anyone else who was following the e-voting stuff, and fully understanding the implications of what it meant long term. I was just going to lots of sites like BBV but I didn't know anyone I could talk to and I was depressed and freaked out for months. It would have helped a whole lot to have had DU.

Now I am working with several groups of people who are as obsessed as I am with the whole fraud issue, who do really get it.