question regarding BBV

[terryg11]

I'll be honest, I haven't followed everything Bev Harris and others are doing but I've read enough of their work and others on voter fraud and the potential for it to believe this could be an issue soon. My question is, if this is such a big deal how come none of the candidates are talking about it, or have I just missed their comments? Seriously, if they really want to win this election then shouldn't they be concerned with this? Could someone fill me in, I feel terribly uninformed about why none of the candidates seem to be talking about it

thanks in advance

[qb]

1. I think a lot in the media are treating it as a "fringe" issue

and the candidates are afraid won't be taken seriously if they bring it up.

[terryg11]

2. so they would rather waste their time

campaigning for a job they will very likely be denied because of voter fraud? sounds rather silly to me. maybe these candidates aren't so smart after all.

should never let the enemy set the agenda or battlefield

[Cocoa]

3. Dean is aware of it, for one

http://getdonkey.com/archives/000817.php

During the Q&A he was asked how he was going to beat Karl Rove. Dean said that he had been thinking on that a lot, but one thing he was concerned about was electronic voting machines. He said that the problems with the electronic voting machines were brought to his attention not by his staff, but by the people that visit his blog. He said that he had started to do his own research on the matter, and didn't like what he was finding out. "Maybe we could get someone from China to monitor our elections." he quipped.



My guess as to why they don't seem to be so concerned about it is that most of them have been through many elections and so they probably have a lot of experience with the issue of election fraud. Kucinich and Gephardt both have experience in city politics which tend to be not so clean. So possibly they don't see the electronic aspect of it to be as important as the whole election process.

[terryg11]

5. glad to hear he's heard of it and spoken on it

I agree tht the whole process is important but one very crucial part is correctly counting the votes.

His quip about having someone from China monitor the elections isn't too far off. I was actually thinking more along the lines of the UN.



Familiarity with election fraud makes me wonder, maybe they have their own devices of fraud in place?

[quinnox]

4. Because it is not a mainstream issue

It would be like expecting the candidates to bring up conspiracies about 9-11, it ain't gonna happen.