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Originally Posted by Papa Schlumpf Wow, that's quite a response to my post. Addressing many things I never even raised! Guess you're struck with election fever, huh? Just a note, everything in my post is merely stating some facts. You can read into it all you like or even put it in a context I never even considered, but it's just that, facts. The main point that it *does* raise is that, according to Mr. Raymond, jamming the phone lines is apparently merely the tip of the iceberg. I'm not saying all (or even any) of the claims in his book are correct, I'm just saying that a former hardcore GOP groupie is making claims of wide(r) spread voter sabotage by the Republican party, sanctioned by senior party members.

My lengthy post was done in response to your own example of reading things into posts that aren't there. Specifically, you opened your post with.....

Originally Posted by Papa Schlumpf Just to make sure, anyone claiming that Republicans have never participated in any kind of voter sabotage in the last decade is factually incorrect.

I don't recall anyone stating Republicans never participated in any form of vote tampering. What has been thoroughly discussed (and disputed) is whether Republicans effectively "stole" the last two Presidential elections. All discussions here relating to voter fraud and/or tampering have been in relation to these elections. So your post refuted a claim that had never been made and referenced an election that had never been discussed. In other words, it had very little to do with the topic at hand.

However, since you brought it up, I expanded on my post. I had promised a more thorough rebuttal to Wellard when time permitted. I had the time when I started my rebuttal to you, so I combined the two posts.

I felt it was appropriate to combine the two since you both mentioned documented cases of tampering or irregularities with voting. I also felt it was appropriate to point out that both of these cases were very minor offenses and the effect, if any, either of them had on the related elections was questionable at best.