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Author Message   linda_franz Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: linda_franz Post Number: 120 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box?  Votes: 1 Posted on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - 8:57 am:    Picking your primary candidate- Vote manipulation potential goes way beyond a presidential election. From the beginning, I've been curious about Kerry's sudden surge in the primaries, at least, it seemed sudden to me. Of course at the same time, the press took the offensive against Dean. How about the other side for a moment- Going back to 2000, were there anomolies in the primary races of McCain/Bush? There was the smear campagin against McCain by the Bush camp. But were there also some voting results that just made no sense? I remember McCain as being pretty popular with Independents I know and I always thought he was the more logical candidate to run against Gore.

The public must be able to see and authenticate these four essential steps for an election to be public, democratic, and valid: (1) Who can vote (voter list); (2) Who did vote (3) The original count; (4) Chain of custody.