I am not saying they were. I am asking how you would go about it. what would it take and how could you get away with it.
2006-06-09 11:01:06 · 14 answers · asked by nefariousx 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
by the term "you" i mean anyone, group or individual, whatever.
2006-06-09 11:15:29 · update #1
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/1...
2006-06-09 11:30:10 · update #2
heres the link sorry
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen
2006-06-11 00:28:25 · update #3
Look at Florida. And it still isn't fixed!
Absentee ballots, exclusionary practices, voting machine tampering, blocking calls for rides, as the repubs plead guilty to in US Federal; District court and many other ways!!
I am sure they are still thinking up ways to defeat the system!
2006-06-09 11:05:52 · answer #1 · answered by cantcu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sure, its possible to do anything...if you have the resources... and have no concept of honesty and integrity..and ignore the hard work of the simple people who are unable to make informed decisions because of having to work two jobs to survive, shadowed by corporations holding the keys to the tabulator, to the machines that are preset at the factory. Redistricting without cause raises ethical conduct for personal gain and changes the vote...electoral college has been demonstrated as a joke, yet still remains. (some)Politicians are above the law and they hate to lose. Elections have been rigged in one way or another and no one is able to...or cares to...correct the problem...(in a timely manner)
people need to get involved to stop it. Its a right that is taken for granted...if only there was time...
Now to rig an election, the scale of the riggin necessary would make a difference. A local race could be fixed by paying voters, county races mean paying companies, state and federal elections, pay corporations who are paying the voters working on the awarded contracts. Its about money and not what you know but who. Its not about how much it costs, its about how much profit. Elections are already rigged, its a game only a few can win, and do. Its all about the sales pitch and the trust placed in the politician, not the truth.
2006-06-09 15:56:51 · answer #2 · answered by www.paperdragon1.com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'd have to defeat the machines' security measures, defeat the failsafes, the balance-checks, and do so in such a way as to be undetectable once the balloting was investigated.
You could cheat in small ways, say by installing unfair election judges (one tried to throw away my stepmother's ballot - he refused to drop it in the box until she left, so she called the police. Only when the officer arrived was the ballot placed in the box), or by paying people to falsely represent themselves in a different district, but these methods are cumbersome.
2006-06-09 11:06:00 · answer #3 · answered by Veritatum17 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An American election might would desire to be very close for electoral fraud to plausibly impact the end result. The vote counting is genuinely de-centralized, no longer basically on the state yet on the county point. it would be particularly impossible to pull off a conspiracy like that, till it got here all the way down to a handful of precincts in one state.
2016-10-30 11:22:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are at various local levels a possible chance of electrion fraud, and the post office employees could do some.
If lets say Bob, who delivers mail to the court house, he sees various vote by mail envelopes comming in, from army troops lets say, who are normally pro republician right now, he could merley throw them away.
In Memphis TN for example, the state representitive there won by the "dead" vote. Enough dead people voted for her to let her win.
So yes on some minor levels but nothing really on a national scale.
2006-06-09 11:07:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For something like that to ever happen there would have to be others in on it. Like if the guy who was trying to win would have to have a brother as governor of the deciding state. What are the odds of that ever happening?
2006-06-09 11:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by cupidstunt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the Republican Party. Ask the attornet General of Florida. And while you're at it ask the U.S. Supreme Court.
I think that it is possible, and that it hass occurred in recent history.
2006-06-09 11:06:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see it being possible but extremely difficult. the best way would be to get ballots and throw out ones that don't "fit" that's the only way i can think of
2006-06-09 11:08:57 · answer #8 · answered by tigrelis28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you say "YOU" - that implies "ME".
And "I" don't have the lack of ethics it takes to do that - so I really couldn't tell you how to do it.
But I'm sure there's a special circle in hell for those people who would/could/did do that (not that I'm saying those people exist).
2006-06-09 11:08:01 · answer #9 · answered by mcdane01 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush did it in Ohio and Florida!
2006-06-12 19:13:18 · answer #10 · answered by mikey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋