The biggest obstacle to pursuing election transparency is the fraudsters who go screaming about Diebold within 5 minutes following any election result they don't like.
Any reasonable voices are inevitably drowned out by the irrational cries of fraud. When these people stop making us look stupid, maybe we'll be able to accomplish something.
I made every disclaimer reasonable in my post. Did you listen to Brad's comments? It seems he did the same. I don't give a farthing about the NH results, specifically, and said I accept Hillary's result. But let us not lose sight of the donut, as opposed to the hole. The biggest threat to progressives is the subtle infiltration into government of for-profit enterprises. To me this is just an electoral parallel to the Blackwater phenomenon in international and domestic security services and equally alarming.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilence and this is a fight of which we should remain supremely concious. I have some reservations about this from a technical perspective, I think these automated results should be audited in perpetuity. In fact, it is up to the Democratic party to look after these results in the primary, that's their responsibility and they may do as they please, but when it comes to the actual election I want to see a verifiable alternate audit to spot check these results, mandated by federal law.
