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To: michael97123 who wrote (181993)	2/16/2006 4:18:11 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi michael97123; Re: "a national election the 40k votes in question would have little meaning." In a national election, it's easy as hell to steal a million votes in a big state where one party has had long time control over all the branches of government. The 40K in Illinois would be a drop in the bucket. The NY and CA votes total around 20 million and those two states have consistently voted Democratic since quite some time ago. Illinois, on the contrary, is fairly split between Republican and Democract and it's a lot harder to steal an election there. Let me explain it this way. The complaints about Illinois are important only because Illinois turned out to be a key state. Before the election, there was no way that they could know that. If the election were nationwide, every vote would be a key vote and the fraud would extend to every state, including, in particular, ones where the election was lopsided one way or the other. So you'd have to take the accusations of fraud in Illinois and multiply them by 50 times to appreciate what kind of accusations of fraud a national election would experience. -- Carl