> Posted on 10/02/2004 10:40:30 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
Edited on 10/03/2004 10:54:37 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I'm posting this because I feel it should be seen, and because I know many people here are going to vote absentee for this upcoming election.
Here is a picture of Presidential Candidate section of the Michigan Absentee ballot, and if you take a look, you might notice something VERY wrong.
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Now, if you look at that, notice how the arrows on the presidential candidates are not aligned....an arrow is left over at the end (pointing to the "Congressional" header), and Bush's name has no arrow. It would appear that the arrows are misaligned by having been moved too far downward.
Provided that you vote for the first arrow (next to Kerry), could this potentially mean that, because the arrows seem to be moved downward, that the arrow next to Kerry's name would actually be a vote for Bush? That someone who doesn't notice this and votes for Kerry would have their vote counted for Bush/Cheney?
To anyone else who has gotten an absentee ballot, is yours the same? Because if it is, this is very serious, and needs to be reported to the County Clerk's/whatever office. Just though I'd share.
Contact your Secretary of State's office and your Republican Party HQ as soon as possible. The State Republican office needs to file a Legal complaint and get the ballots recalled.
this for real?
ping
I found this from Captains Quarters. This needs to be spread wide and far.
All bloggers and pajama people need to get the word out.
Thanks to everyone.
Not this $#!t again ...
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It looks to me as though Bush is not really on the ballot.
ping!
How can this get out? How brain dead are the elections people there? After 2000 you would think they would recognize that people (including me) remember the name LePore. I guess they wanna be famous.
Great Catch, Granholm did promise michigan for Kerry, I guess its at any costs.
For your ping lists...
Important ping.
Could Kerry's votes go for the Greens?
(To anyone else who has gotten an absentee ballot, is yours the same? Because if it is, this is very serious, and needs to be reported to the County Clerk's/whatever office. Just though I'd share.)
important voter fraud ping
This ballot is from one precinct in Alma, MI. 69 (that's not a joke) absentee ballots were mailed out before the error was brought to the clerk's attention. Replacement ballots have been ordered and will be mailed to the voters who received misprinted ballots.
Did you receive this ballot recently in Washtenaw County? Apparently other counties have the same error and new absentee ballots had been printed.
According to comments at DailyKos, reprints have been sent: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/1/135446/991 (thanks to Rob: http://goodspeedupdate.com/ )
These were some of the comments left at the site.
The ballot looks to be "creased" - perhaps that is the problem - just a thought -
If you think that isn't the case - then asked an election official about it - before you start any issue that may not be true - these are troubling times as it is -
just my opinion - ask first, act second - depending on the answer
You've got to get this to the RNC ASAP.
Hi, I have an LJ account, but I'm not really involved in the community. A friend posted this in LJ somewhere. I'm originally from Gratiot Co. and am registered to vote there, but I live in AA. That's the ballot I received on September 29th. I called the company as soon as I saw the error, and received a call from Barbara Gager (city clerk) early the next morning. Apparently, it only affects a small number of ballots, but evenso, it's a fairly grievous error.
Moral of the story: Check your ballot closely when you vote this November.
If the Democrats are counting on tons of absentee ballots in their vote-fraud efforts, this will kill THEM, not Bush. I think this absentee ballot should be freely distributed in Detroit and every other Democrat parasite nest in Michigan.
Low down dirty rats ping!
Spread the word!
Good idea -
(To me it looked like some ballots got creased and were not checked over good before they were sent out)
We just started using the electronic voting machines - last time I voted I was lost - this time I plan to stay in the booth and figure it out no matter how long it takes -
Thanks and take care -
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Obviously Brokaw is talking about you.
another problem w/ it.
it's says democratic not democrat
there is no such party as the democratic party
that's screwy, and whatever authorities are in charge of oversight must be notified (AND put on notice) immediately.
If anyone actually received a ballot like that, IMMEDIATELY call then bring it into the county auditor. Also notify your Republican Party STATE Chair - ASAP
I see that, and I'm very, very upset about it...I was just wondering what kind of system it was, and if it impacted the entire ballot or just the Bush/Cheney portion.
Am I not mistaken to believe that if there is not an arrow by bush's name he is not on the ballot?
That's also a pet peeve of mine. But, unfortunately, you very rarely see Democrat used anymore. Same thing with liberal is now progressive. Dems have figured that "tic" must be more palatable to their voters.
something is up with the ballot.. something is messed up by mistake or otherwise and it needs to be fixed. Either way, new absentee ballots will thwart the democratic voter fraud machine, they won't have enough time to put new fakes together.
I was in such a hurry to post before site went down, I left the URL for Captains Quarters off the post. I have asked Admin to correct and put in via CaptainsQuarters.
did the same web-site that pointed out the forgeries in rathergate point out another huge fraud? Freepers you are making me one happy guy.
I haven't heard anything about it here. I'll see what I can find out.
oh i see from captians.... either way guys, gals foward this to Drudge.
I think the city of Alma.
"To anyone else who has gotten an absentee ballot, is yours the same? Because if it is, this is very serious, and needs to be reported to the County Clerk's/whatever office. Just though I'd share."
Problem solved. "These are not the droids you're looking for."
They are just Palm Beach County Florida ballots.
"Move along."
Bump.
I can only imaging the national scandal this would cause, that is if it was sKerry/Edwards with no arrows.
Since these things are electronically scanned and the arrows are for the benefit of (morons) the user...does it really matter?
I just emailed Rush.
i'm having concerns that this post is not legitimate
PLEASE don't take anything from there at face value!
and besides kerry edwards wasn't around back then.. this looks pretty legitimate to me.
Optical mark systems almost always use printed markings on the paper as a positional reference; the arrows almost certainly serve not only as a marker for the user, but for the scanner as well. I would expect that a ballot with a "Kerry" mark would scan for Bush, one for Cobb would scan for Kerry, etc. A ballot marked for Bush would get kicked out as invalid.
Incredible mess.
That's not a bug, it's a feature.
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