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Considering the Bush elections, you could say we've already been there.


You could... you would also be fairly stupid for comparing two elections with virtually no similarities.


There was a great documentary about it actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy

Don't call people stupid.


I've seen that as well, and there's a large difference between anomalies, fraud, and mistakes that are of questionable impact and a wholesale fraud of a nation's election. It's stupid, it's pure demagoguery that indicates a lack of understanding of both elections.


  > virtually
... so you're telling me that the elections were virtually different, and not actually different. In other words, there were almost some differences between the two.


vir·tu·al·ly ˈvərCHə(wə)lē/ adverb 1. nearly; almost. "virtually all those arrested were accused" synonyms: effectively, in effect, all but, more or less, practically, almost, nearly, close to, verging on, just about, as good as, essentially, to all intents and purposes, roughly, approximately 2. by means of virtual reality techniques.

Sorry, pobody's nerfect.


... No. He's saying there are virtually no _similarities_. Might want to check your parser.




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