No, seriously, how many people do you think were involved in stealing the election for Bush? This question has been bugging me for a while now. The logistics of committing such a massive fraud are hard to comprehend. The evidence of 'irregularities' that has been uncovered to date suggests that individuals from numerous organizations and organs, both local and national, were complicit in the process; eg. employees of Diebold etc, republican party members, the MSM, court officials, the 'hackers' etc. That's a figure in the thousands right, even if we limit ourselves to the battleground states where they were most active.
In a democracy the crime of stealing an election is about as big and bad as it gets, apart from maybe invading other countries (but that's another post).
Imagine all these people going around with the knowledge that they have committed high treason in their heads- how do they deal with it? How do they feel? Guilty? Let's leave that one aside... scared?
Surely amongst these thousands there will be a few who crack, or stand up, or just let it slip after a few beers. Which is what is bugging me. How come that hasn't happened yet? What kind of apparatus do the Rethugs have in place that can ensure the silence of thousands of people? Don't tell me the MSM. That helps, but with so many people actively looking for evidence, you would think more would have slipped out.
We know the Republicans run a pretty tight ship, but to complete fraud on this scale they would need to outsource, and guaranteeing the silence of contractors (especially if they don't pay them) is much harder.
I don't know where this kind of reasoning takes us... is the fragmented nature of the evidence indicative of local opportunism rather than a centralised program of disenfranchisement? Perhaps it was a deliberate ploy, to avoid evidence trails that lead back towards the centre (a disenfranchisement franchise)- if fraud is proven in one site you just cut them lose, claim it was an exception.
The more disturbing alternative is that the centre orchestrated everything, and that the people involved are too evil/sh_t scared to ever say anything. But like i suggested, there would be just too many of them for this to be true across the board. So where are they all?