Montreal Gazette: If there's trouble in Florida, don't blame chads No paper trail with electronic voting. System prone to software glitches, critics say, and if it crashes ... oh, man
Belfast: Something rotten in the state of FloridaPregnant chads, vanishing voters... the election fiasco of 2000 made the Sunshine State a laughing stock. More importantly, it put George Bush in the White House. You'd think they'd want to get it right this time. But no, as Andrew Gumbel discovers, the democratic process is more flawed than ever.
the biggest scandal is how the Democrats would stoop to any level to make unwarranted accusations that make it appear the GOP did something wrong, when most of the mistakes were made in Democratic districts by democrats. The media still picks up on these lies that the Democrats spread.
Bovine Scatology.
There was no "itimidation or disenfranchisement." That is all Democrat propaganda from the Liberals in the hope to paint them as victims and the protector of miniorities.
The only "irregularities" were counting only hanging chads and pregnant chads from selected counties that had a 7:2 ratio of Democrats vs. Republicans.
The Democrats could not win a football game unless their side had 20 men on the field, the other side 3 men on the field, and the referees were paid off.
Can anyone determine why these electronic voting receipts are so allegedly important? You don't get a receipt from any other voting method, and they can't seriously be used to verify (or not) a recount. So what practical purpose could they serve?
Is there not a single voting method that the people of Miami-Dade can accept for their citizens?
Republicans disenfranchise voters? It was the A.P. who called Florida before the polls closed in the panhandle. I question whether that was an intentional move on their part, but there is no way to prove it. I wonder how many voters went home instead of voting. From what I understand, the panhandle is mostly Republican.
Suspicions confirmed!
The white Republican male has invented a computer voting machine that smells you when you place your finger on the touch screen.
It rejects all who smell like a Democrat.
Why ... I tell you ... this election is in the bag! ;)
NOTICE TO ALL DIMOCRATS:
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
Your vote will not count if you don't touch the screen.
Your vote will not count if you vote for more than one selection for any one candidate for a single office.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
Your vote will not count if you vote both yes and no on any one ballot question.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
You will be shot should you vote more than the alloted one vote per voter.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
Please remember to touch the screen to indicate your vote.
What's wrong with a pencil and paper?
George Bush won all 7 independent Presidential 2000 vote re-counts .
Democrats, including Jesse Jackson, tried in vain to get just one Black person in all of Florida to come forward and prove they were illegally denied a chance to vote or were disenfranchised.
The foreign press will be decidely disappointed when Bush takes FloriDUH by an overwhelming margin. Kerry can campaign to his heart's content - he has made relatively few forays into FloriDUH compared to Bush and doesn't have Bush's ability to provide aid to the hurricane victims. I can just hear Kerry now:
"I actually voted FOR the aid bill - before I voted against it"
In the last trip to FloriDUH, the President participated in handing out relief supplies. In his last trip to FloriDUH, Kerry was taken on a highly orchestrated photo op tour and had little contact with "the little people".
Floridians know the difference.
Also, with Mel Martinez on the ballot to replace retiring Sen. Bob Graham, Cuban-Americans are likely to vote for Bush than Kerry.
I predict that there will be no meaningful controversy in FloriDUH other that the one contrived by the Dems to try to make something out of nothing.
It may be that the Republicans will need to challenge the election results.
The article obviously is filled with conspiracy-type nonsense. However, I would be very unhappy if I had to vote on a touch-screen machine. In my opinion, the preservation of a paper trail is a critical component in maintaining voter confidence. As the business world becomes more and more transparent, it is a step backward to remove the possibility of auditing the vote count.