Reply #16: Like we still got a whole lot of work to get this straightened out. [View All]

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Plus I'm a big, big proponent of computerized voting BUT a big, big proponent of printed receipts that go into a locked ballot box after being reviewed by the voter.

There's a lot of things that people get really worked up about that are just matter of fact to me (and that's bad for me because it means I've become too hardened for how the system could work better). But for example, one of my earliest memories of any election was taking people sodas and potato chips in line at midnight trying to keep them from leaving and going home. This was in 1980 and as you'll remember that was a close election. So that was five hours after the polls closed. So, in 24 years, we've still got people standing in line for five and six hours. That doesn't upset me because it's something that I've seen for 24 years, but God bless the folks that it does upset so that we finally can do something about it.

The bottom line is that if this was a 500 vote margin like Florida, I think that it could be proven that there were 500 illegal votes or unlawful ballots in Ohio. But, regretfully, in my heart of hearts, 116,000 votes is a big margin and it's going to take something big that has not come to light yet (and it still might) to get over that hill. Note: Hill, not mountain. The eternal optimist.

It's a tough row to hoe but not impossible. But it's going to require more than what's been posted (and that's not to say that it's not out there). If the conspiracy is as big as it's got to be to meet the allegations of what it's done certainly there would be somebody to crack somewhere.