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Your election isn’t being stolen. Calm down. See the burning stupidity here.

This is what happens when you (a) want to subscribe to conspiracy theories, (b) think the GOP is smarter than they are, and (c) are gullible and will read whatever someone writes on the internets.

Let’s take a look at what’s being argued here.

ES&S iVotronics touch screens have already been observed now in four completely separate States, flipping the votes, in the early voting that has taken place to date. Eye-witness reports of repeated, consistent flipping of votes (from Obama to McCain naturally) has already occurred in the States of: West Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Texas that have had early voting.  Missouri, of course, is a key background State in McCain’s electoral vote math.

Ok, I want to hear how it was observed “flipping the votes.” Further, I’d question your run of the mill eye-witness voter, largely because they’re unreliable. If you press the Y and H key at the same time (and I’d bet people would press close to one button over the other), then can you tell me which one is going to get clicked? Even if you thought really hard, “I want the Y key to come up,” you couldn’t guarantee it.

As a developer, I come across people who all the time don’t quite understand how to use software. This doesn’t mean the software is corrupted, just that people don’t get things right all the time.

These are not “glitches“.
This is also not the result of just “one faulty machine”.
How about some straight-talk:

Fact: This is not a “glitch“.
Fact: This is not a one machine problem.
Fact: This is not a one State problem.
Fact: This is not a one Election problem.
Fact: This is neither a “theory”, nor speculation. It’s real.
Fact: The Democratic candidate is getting their (would be) votes systematically stolen.

For some reason, if you write for Daily Kos, you just have to say something and it’s true.

Anyone who says “that’s not a glitch, it’s intentional,” clearly doesn’t understand how subversive glitches can be. Further, they haven’t even shown reasonably (anyone have a YouTube video of a guy clearly pressing one button and the other candidate being selected? No? Thought not.) that it is a problem with the machine.

That the “glitch” has been observed across different machines only speaks to people using the different machines. As many people who write software can attest, it’s often not the system that’s broken, it’s that the functionality hasn’t been well conveyed to the user.

Multiple states have multiple people, thousands (millions now?) voting, and a handful have “issues.” Predictable. Even with paper ballots.

That it hasn’t been actually shown in a test case, and only by anecdote should make anyone skeptical. This is solely conspiracy bullshit, not meant for human consumption, but only Rtards who think that the government is *really* out to steal an election, that anyone who doesn’t support Obama or Paul is evil, and that [redacted to keep this on my RSS feeds].

Keep in mind, everybody, that two people saying they can repeat results in a hidden closet in a basement isn’t evidence. Much larger groups of people have testified to seeing Bigfoot, to seeing UFOs, to causing cold fusion, and to turning iron straight to gold. None of that happened, and people like to lie.

I find it best in these cases to ask yourself a question: “What’s more likely: two or three people from Texas trying to vote correctly and the machines failing, and everybody else not reporting their issues, and the GOP teaming up with voting machine creators to systematically sabatoge the election and being dumb enough to show evidence of this in *TEXAS*, a state that has no chance of going blue, or two or three country bumpkins not knowing how to correctly use a computerized voting machine?”