As I made clear, this is possible. What is NOT possible is to lose votes (which we did) via fraud. And what is much more difficult than the conspiracy theorists realize is manufacturing votes on election day (which the enemy did.)
However, looking at the exit polling Demographics, and the preliminary who-voted-where precinct counts, it's pretty clear that contrary to our expectations, 0bama actually turned out his base. It was, after all is said and done, a base -- and therefore turnout -- election, and ours is shrinking.
Finally, you and I must agree to disagree about absentee ballot counting. I don't know where these are counted by SEIU. I've heard this repeated several times on FR. To my knowledge, this is untrue. In my state (PA) they are counted at the same time the other votes are counted: when the polls close, and by the same people: the election judge and his clerks, and they are counted in public before representatives of both parties. Those are usually lawyers, picked by their respective parties. And they aren't people who can be intimidated.
There's fraud. I don't dispute that. But if you think we lost this election because of fraud, expect to keep using that excuse, because we are going to keep losing elections as long as people believe that.
Adding votes is common. Look at all the precincts in Ohio with more votes than registered voters. Subtracting votes is also easy, because of absentee ballots. Many have dismissed the “conspiracy theories” related to voter fraud. Those are people who don't understand how completely vulnerable our voting system is. With no audit trail the best we can do is surmise, based upon polling or perceived enthusiasm, that something is not right. Verification is not possible. That is a crime.
As I mentioned in an earlier note, I have many relatives in Israel, many who were raised as communists and still subscribe to socialism. When Israel's very liberal News source, Haaretz reports that 89% of Israeli residents, US citizens, have reportedly voted for Romney, people who often spend half the year in the US, the reports of 69# of American Jews supporting Obama make no sense. American Jews are more religious than Israeli Jews, and they know that Christians are among their most important supporters. Our voting system has become a political tool. Obama’s early activities in politics were as a Project Vote trainer. These people know our voting systems inside and out. With so many vulnerabilities, and such secrecy around the process, it is foolhardy to assume honest elections.
Again, I designed auditable systems with which the FDA inspectors often found fault. I looked around my precinct and asked a few questions. The vulnerability was so flagrant that it would hard to tell where to begin. The scanner was connected to the Internet - fail! People working on government projects, government employees or not, may not be connected to the Internet. Was there local memory, flash perhaps in the scanner? No one knew. District employees would retrieve the scanners after the election - fail!
To some these may seem like small issues. For any kind of security these are fatal flaws, which could be addressed by local counts, trust placed in citizens who care about their neighbors, and secure paper ballots. Without that one must assume “conspiracies” because there is no way to learn the intent of those for and by whom this government was created.
This will show as people sense, correctly, that this government has a different agenda. The Constitution, our framers, insisted that our president be born to parents whose sole allegiance was to our Constitution. Our parties and our media decided that was not longer a relevant provision in today's world. Because of that we are losing our freedoms, and the myth of a voting system that reflects the will of the people is just that - a myth.