Obama should BOYCOTT all states that use machines - BEFORE they vote.

[MethuenProgressive]

If you claim the machines cheat, boycott them before you see the results.
That would be the honest thing to do.
jmo, ymmv.

[doublethink]

1. Yea but that would be just about every State in the U.S. ....

check it out.
http://www.electionline.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1099

[MethuenProgressive]

2. OK.. then he should DEMAND a RECOUNT before the ballots are counted.

Even when he wins.

[PATRICK]

3. I'd like to see his

face when you suggest that to him. On a wince scale that one would likely be two Kerry's(who seemed to shrug off computer warnings as nutty). I don't think any of our mainstream leaders can even contemplate such a thing. It has NOT been confronted up to now and you think they can suddenly get all hot for a boycott?

They should have started a howl like this shortly after 2000, but no, they were getting all nice and bi-partisan so Bush could have two uninterrupted terms of raping democracy. (Which candidates would instinctively think that characterization too impolite and disrespectful?) The various parts of the base and especially painful, the left, are in the same cocoon of unknowing about this simple issue. They don't "win"or earn elections, they steal. Winning is accidental or a product of demoralization of voters and the pols who blame themselves like idiots. And if Kerry doesn't know he was robbed he is an idiot. He is not alone by any means, up there, shoved out the door with the GOP laughing at him and many others from inside. Despite the obvious vote suppression I bet he would still surprise you by what he chooses not to know.

[Ytzak]

4. If he boycotts these states he might as well withdraw now.

If he boycotts, he gets none of their delegates. Those delegates will go to Clinton, Edwards, and any others that run there.

That means Obama looses and Clinton wins. If he is going to choose to loose, he should withdraw and save the voters the hassle of rejecting someone who shows himself to be a whinny assed quiter like Kerry.

[Bonn1997]

5. Obama should have a plan by now

He had to have known about the possibility of vote rigging in the primary and especially the general election (as should all the other Democratic candidates). Yet they chose to run anyway. You'd assume they each have a plan about how they would deal with vote rigging, and I highly doubt the plan of any of them was to "just let it happen and nothing."