'Terror' on Election Day!

the Village Voice ^ | July 16th, 2004 | James Ridgeway

[Salamander]

"An accusation is often a subconscious confession"

We used the touchscreen machines in MD in the 2002 election.
I liked them after I seriously believed I wouldn't.
Large fonts, very easy to read, the choices were clear and concise and after I was done voting, it spat out a card which also recorded my votes.
Said card was placed in a locked box and it left a nice little "paper trail" in case of electronic glitches.
What more could anyone want in the way of honesty and dependibility?
[unless of course, *honesty* is a problem for some]...;)

[miltonim]

Reading this article had a negative effect on my IQ...definitely.

[bondjamesbond]

The people mostly likely thrown off balance who will decide not to vote will be middle- and low-income Californians—the Democratic base. Well-to-do voters (Republicans, more often than not) will likely have cast their ballots early.

This bit of fluffy fantasy is in direct contradiction to the experience of the last dozen elections, which clearly show a consistent late Republican surge as working voters get back from the job.

[Legion04]

this way they can ease their own pain, and pass the blame of kerry's loss in the election to anything else other than their own failures, just like they've done since 2000 with Gore.

[Ukiapah Heep]

But "Jimmuh" likes to throw in the towell!

[Steve_Seattle]

"I would assume that if there were an actual attack anywhere in the country on election day, we would postpone all voting for a time. Big deal."

You can't assume that; any emergency changes in the election process need to be spelled out in the law, ahead of time. Haven't we learned anything from Florida, 2000? As a start, I think the rules (law) should include:

1. A mere terrorist threat shall not be sufficient cause for postponing the election.

2. In case of an actual terrorist attack on or near election day, an extended voting period shall be allowed only in areas designated as disaster areas by the appropriate legal authority. Claims of suppressed voter turnout, and resultant claims for recounts, re-votes, or extended voting periods, in areas not subject to a direct terrorist attack, shall not be allowed.

3. The extended voting period shall not extend for more than ten days beyond the original voting day. No one ineligible to vote at the time of the original election day shall be allowed to vote in the extended period.

4. Unless a terrorist act caused the destruction of ballots already cast, the extended period shall be only to allow those to vote who did not previously vote. There will be no re-voting for people who have already cast their ballots. If a terrorist act destroys some or all ballots already cast in a precinct, the entire precinct shall be allowed to re-vote.

And so forth . . . the law would have to be highly detailed.

[beelzepug]

"...to see whether voter rolls are properly purged of dead people and felons..."

OK, I'm confused. I thought this was their base, along with illegal - sorry, undocumented - immigrants.

[joesnuffy]

These of course are the dems favorite tricks...
So she sticks to the Clinton MO...."Make Counter Accusations"
If the dems loose....she can make a big bluserty "I toad you show" (I told you so)

She is already getting ready to run as the hero over a corrupt govt......
The most corrupt vile adminstration and first lady in the history of the U.S.A.

She's already crafting another phony image and a phony campaign....

imo

Bwahahahahahaha.....

[Chode]

where i vote, there's at least one person out of the four or five working at the polls that knows any given voter by sight and the machanical machines were made in the 50's...

[88keys]

Now that's a fascinating piece from the "archives"!

[Yaelle]

I disagree with your rules. I believe that voting should be simultaneous ALWAYS. I even hate the delays due to the time zones. If I made the rules, I would specify that in the event of a terrorist attack on or near election day, no votes would count and the entire voting would take place on the next safe. convenient day.

[Dont Mention the War]

Before I respond, let me state for the record that I believe Ridgeway and Madsen to be loons, and this conspiracy theory to be laughable. That said: If something like this were to occur, you know what I'd call it? Payback. This is exactly what already happened in 2000, the only difference being that the news media perpertrated the psyops instead of the government. By falsely throwing Florida to Gore over an hour before the Florida polls even closed, and thus leading the media to chant repeatedly, "There's no way Bush can win it now! There's no way Bush can win it now!", untold millions of GOP voters stayed home in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones, convinced that their votes were meaningless.

[TaxRelief]

paranoid

[ladyinred]

OMG! The NERVE of that vote rigging witch! That they get away with pretending it was Bush who stole the election in Florida is astounding! How quickly people forgot what they saw with their own eyes on TV day after day! At the time, it was obvious to most of the nation that Gore was trying to steal the election!!!!

A thief is always afraid that people are going to steal from them, right Hillary babe?

[John W]

"There is not a single chance in this life or the next that Indiana will go to Kerry."

My first thought too.If these loons consider Indiana a "key" state for Kerry,they're insane.When did we last go dem-1964?

[Indie]

amid growing fears that the Bush administration may try to fix the vote in a tight election.

The writer of this piece of trash would suffer bodily injury were they here in Texas. In fact, like the teacher in NM that likes his 15 yr old women students to taste condoms, this joker is worth flying up to visit and have a "discussion..."

[RockinRight]

Thursday's request by New York senator Hillary Clinton for an independent study of the nation's voting system before the November election comes amid growing fears that the Bush administration may try to fix the vote in a tight election

These Democrats are on some kind of drugs. BUSH fixing the election??????????????????? Every single case of voter fraud that I can remember hearing about within the last 50 years was done by DEMOCRATS.

[RockinRight]

These nuts are sickening. First, there's no way in hell that Kerry would win KY or IN...secondly...geez I can't even go on its so moronic...

[Axenolith]

>YAWN<
'Rats in the corn crib again...

[ableChair]

I think these guys have completely checked out of the program. This is WEIRD.