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Originally Posted by DaveW68
Fraud can happen in just about any facet of life, including elections. The new machines are supposed to make fraud almost impossible, although I guess anything is possible. Paper ballots don't guarantee a fair election either. Just look at Chicago in 1960. The stuffed ballot boxes got Kennedy the victory that year. But then again, the Kennedy's are the most corrupt family in the history of American politics and nobody should have been surprised. Nixon should have been the rightful President in 1960....if you think that each person is entitled to only 1 vote.
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It's widely held in political science circles that they both stuffed the snot out of the ballots, and Kennedy simply did a better job of stuffing, i.e. I have no sympathy for Nixon, father of the EPA.
I don't know who said the machines were harder to corrupt. They've been found to be quite hackable. Even this nutty elections head (I forget the real title, but the guy who makes those decisions) back in NC (when I was living there) admitted that they're easier to corrupt (though, he pushed them very hard, and he even was pushing internet voting because "sure, there can be fraudulent votes, but is anybody actually going to do that?" Uh...DUH, yes)
