Reply #49: Further thought from one of "we guys": [View All]

[Febble]

You are not, surely, seriously inferring that either of us is suggesting that "we all be happy that the "winners"of the election had a 100% chance of having "their vote counted" and the "losers" of the changed election had about a 98% chance of having their vote counted"?

Do I need to spell this out?

Take a precinct with 500 potential Democratic voters and 400 potential Republican voters. If all voters vote and all votes are counted fairly, Dems will win the precinct by 55.5% : 44.4%

If a malefactor sets up the voting machine so that 1% of Dem votes are switched to Rep, as long as all 500 Dem voters still vote the machine will switch 50 Dem votes to Rep, registering 450 Dem votes and 450 Rep votes, and the result will be 50% : 50%.

If 50 Dem voters don't vote at all, there will be 405 Dem votes registered (450 cast,45 switched) and 445 Rep votes registered, and Dems will lose by 48% : 52%.

There is nothing to make me happy about the prospect of 50 Dem votes being switched to Bush. But there is a heck of a lot more to make make me unhappier about 45 Dem votes being switched to Bush AND 50 Dem votes not being cast at all.

edited for grammar and clarity