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The secondary "trail" is too "insecure". Electronic voting will be innocent until proven guilty.
However, if Team Bush does steal the election, there will be an incredible incentive for someone to come forward and expose the whole operation.
Stealing a presidential election isn't some small-time operation to hush up, like, say, 50 years of UFO visitations. :) Oh, no, this would be a form of treason of the greatest gravity, and would result in some or all of the following political disasters:
1. Members of Team Bush sentenced to long prison terms; 2. Bush and his family permanently disgraced; 3. The destruction of the Republican Party; 4. Meltdown of the US financial system as the Euro replaces the Dollar as the standard reserve currency; 5. Prime opportunity for terrorist actions or a coup d'êtat; 6. The possibility of imposition of martial law; 7. The possibility of political violence; 8. Enormous GNP declines and deficits that would take decades to recover from; 9. Possibility of coup d'êtat/martial law imposed by the military; 10. The possible, but unlikely, end of the United States of America as a unified republic via chaos or civil warfare.
I don't think that Bush and Co. are willing to risk that much damage. Such a scenario would also result in crippling or fatal losses for the American oil industry. If push comes to shove in the oil industry, Shrub will get mowed down like a thick-stemmed weed that had been neglected since April.
And remember, bullies are usually cowards.
No, I think any electoral theft will happen in more genteel circumstances, like the courts. And the pressure would be on the Electors in the Electoral College; no matter the outcome in such an event, the EC would probably be abolished fairly quickly after the election.
If Bush drags it out long enough, he can make Kerry look like an obstructionist and eventually turn public sentiment against him.
Then again, it could just as easily turn against Bush.
--bkl
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