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The Democratic Underground site has received permission to post Bob Fitrakis's reply ...
If you're pinning your hopes on this "reply," you're in for even more disappointment. The reply is pathetic. For example, he makes a big deal that Manjoo messed up the title of one of the people cited: Fitrakis writes, "Manjoo actually, in a major error, refers to Damschroder, as the Chair of the Election Board. ..." Oh, sorry, he was actually the director, not the chairman. (And for all you grammatically challenged folks, a "chair" is a piece of furniture. People who oversee things are "chair men.")
Yeah, that's a smoking gun if I ever saw one.
Fitrakis also writes, "Manjoo’s claim that the missing voting machines did not impact the African American communities is bizarre and laughable."
The only thing bizarre and laughable is that Manjoo never makes this claim. He does state, however, that it was due to an innocent error of allocating the machines too early in the process--months before the election, before the surge in voter registration closer to the election date.
If this is the best "rebuttal" you can come up with, Manjoo should sleep pretty well tonight.
