I found something that was pretty interesting

[lcordero]

http://www.gpnys.org/archives/000010.php

All but two counties in the Iowa Caucuses used DRE e-vote technology.
And we'll never be able to verify the results.
http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/CoVoteSystem.pdf

[aeon flux]

1. Dean should have won it

I wonder what the exit polls say.
If they hadn't been tampered with that is.

[buckeye1]

4. Dean rigged the machines.

He couldn't even get that right.

[oasis]

2. That does it!! I'm making plans to live in France.

[Gore1FL]

3. I guess I am lost here

What part of people standing in various corners was done electronically?

[lcordero]

10. look at this pdf:

http://www.sos.state.ia.us/pdfs/elections/CoVoteSystem.pdf

doesn't look like there were too many people standing in a corner does it?

[Dookus]

11. that PDF

is from over a year ago. It shows what kind of voting machines are used in various counties in Iowa.

Caucuses are not votes in the traditional sense. The machines used in general elections have nothing to do with the caucuses.

Damn, this is funny.

[MurikanDemocrat]

12. What Dookus said

What you linked to is not the results of the Iowa caucus. It's just a summary of Iowa voting systems.

Geeze loueeeze!

[Dookus]

15. bump for the daytime crowd

so they can see the desperation for themselves.

[Dookus]

5. LOL...

the allegation about vote rigging in New Hampshire was laughable enough. This is just outright hilarious. People stand together and are counted in a caucus. As far as I know, there's no ballots at all.

Dean lost. Sorry, but that's just the way it turned out.

[Skidmore]

9. It's that way in Iowa, too.

People stand in the room and heads are counted. Results are phoned in in the presence of everyone in the room.

[MurikanDemocrat]

6. A caucus is not done by ballot or machine

It's done by counting heads by hand.

THERE WAS NO DRE E-VOTE TECHNOLOGY USED IN THE IOWA CAUCUS

[oasis]

7. "pretty interesting" indeed.

[seaglass]

17. It was the calculators - they were fixed! n/t

[buckeye1]

8. The crooked machines must have....

robbed Edwards of his rightful victory. You can never trust Dean.

[tobius]

13. Boy who cried

wolf... The constant charges of vote rigging in Dem primaries has the potential to cause eye-rolling responses to any real claims of impropriety in November.

:cry: :eyes:

[Dookus]

14. that's an excellent point, Tobius

(and welcome to DU :hi:)

I've been arguing against the conspiracy theorists for a while now, and that's one of the best arguments I've heard in a long time. It makes Democrats look nuts on the issue. Thanks for raising it - I'll be sure to steal it :)

[King of New Orleans]

16. ya got that right

I don't the like the shift to electronic balloting either, but the wild "we was robbed" by 20 points is ridiculous and now tedious

[Dookus]

18. well, it's not going away unless we fight it at every turn...

I don't want to hear for the next four years how Dean was robbed. He wasn't robbed (except maybe by Trippi) - people voted for somebody else. That's how it works. All the money in the world isn't going to change that.