If the Republicans truly won, then Diebold also won

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You see, our Democracy is dead if the people who count our votes, a group that should be an independent third party group, have a stake in the Elections.

Diebold both supports Republicans AND counts the votes AND has 'flaws', 'errors', and 'glitches' in the systems they maintain.

As long as Diebold is allowed to count the vote, then there is no such thing as Democracy.

"A wealthy businessman helping the Ohio Republican Party try to win the state in 2004 for President Bush also is the head of a company competing for a state contract to sell voting machines.

Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., told Republicans in an Aug. 14 fund-raising letter that he is ``committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.''

The letter invited guests to a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser at O'Dell's suburban Columbus mansion and asked them to consider donating $10,000 each. The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to qualify Diebold, based in Green, as one of three companies eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election."
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/6646063.htm?1c

Here is a good analogy:

If you are the plaintiff and another person is the defendant at a trial, and let's say the Judge said that he was committed to letting the defendant off the hook.

Would that have been a fair trial?

Was this a fair election?