Classic deception---right up there with Mitofsky over-excited Kerry voters. So when are we going to investigate to find out why all the machines, no matter who the maker, got excited for Bush. And look into why the exit pollsters seemed to have attracted more Kerry voters (there were more).

"Danaher Controls, the voting machine manufacturer based in Gurnee, Ill., inspected the counting system from beginning to end and agreed that was when the error occurred, then figured out how. Technicians concluded the laptop was busy completing another task just as numbers from that precinct were being fed into it. "As a result, the laptop did not receive the data as fast as it was sent," said an elections board report on the probe. "Consequently, data was lost.""


What I cannot figure out, is that I have had jobs that used computers since 1972, and even then they could count to numbers more than ten thousand, and they could keep jobs separate, and not lose data. By the standards for computers in 1972, in fact, more memory was saved than this; and we created a micro-fische for checks, invoices and data that the computer (at that time) could not handle. In 2004, after more then thirty years continuous use of computers, and an exponential number of improvements, there is no reason under law or under common sense why any such errors would be able to occur at all, much less in so many machines in so many counties (and all favoring one candidate). One little lap-top today holds more information, memory, and processing power than the biggest main-frames of 1972, and yet, they try to hoodwink us into excusing the stupidest errors, errors that would have cost somebody their job back in the day. And then, they try to pretend that all of us dumb Americans cannot figure out those dang computers to be able to tell that they are trying to hoodwink us... when plenty of people do this all day for a living... It is an insult to the intelligence and work of the American people. Do they think that computers are programmed and used only in India and Japan? Do they think that by playing dumb they avoid prosecution? Perhaps the day that computers were invented ignorance might be a defense, but today? At this time, ignorance on the part of the computer technicians who have provided these machines ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, because vote tampering is as anti-American and as bad a form of stealing as it gets... Grand-theft doesn't begin to cover it. This is a crime against the United States. Everybody is still acting like these are just nice companies doing business as usual, etc. etc.; and nobody is throwing the book at them.

This is the crux of it. It's the "well lookie here" defense.