You may need to look at this Diebold issue, as why in the world would anyone want to sell or buy unaditable voting machines, unless to keep a conspiracy going. This all smells really bad.
I think it's a fair assumption that marketing voting machines capable of tampering with election results, made many Republican state houses by those machines, making Diebold stock much more valuable in the short term.
That enabled Wally O'Dell and the Diebold upper management to sell out eventually for a huge profit, before someone discovered what he and his associates were doing. It is also worth checking to see whether O'Dell and his associates entered into a conspiracy with some Republicans to inflate the price of Diebold stock. By selling lots of machines and ensuring a Republican victory in 2004, O'Dell and Republicans would not have to fear the Justice Dept. or an independent Special Prosecutor like Patrick Fitzgerald, as Bush would pardon them. So, an attempt to artificially inflate the value of these illegal machines might have brought money to everyone who hands are dirty here.
It really is all related. Follow the money and let's see who purchased Bushels of Diebold stock when these paperless machines with backdoors and no audit trails were ready for sale. It really could be a huge conspiracy.
I wonder if Karl Rove and Cheney bought Diebold stock and if so, how can Patrick Fitzgerald get into this. Well, the attempt to drown Joe Wilson could have been in important part of the conspiracy and certainly, if the Democrats won, a whole new kind of light might have been shed on these activities, including lying to the American people and high crimes and misdemeanors against the United States of America. They could not allow Bush to lose and Wilson could have brought them down, if Bush was running against anyone with a backbone.
So, they needed to sell lots of the Diebold unauditable machines to get the stock up and they also might have needed to conspire with the Republicans to use those back doors to ensure a Republican win so that Diebold and its fellow conspirators were safe and the attempt to smear Wilson would never be discovered by Kerry's Justice Dept. They also realized they were running against a complete schmuck in Kerry and a little manipulation was all they needed.
This was originally a comment in another very important diary by rukkus at http://www.dailykos.com/...