I just heard the voting machines in PA have started walking around and eating people!
I saw that here in MN but it was only this long hair maggot infest dope smoking FN type wearing an Impeach Bush button so apparently they are programed to only eat Rabid Moveon.org Leftists. Freepers should be safe. The Election Judge just game me a wink and a nod and said "nobody saw nothin' "
BTW, Karl says HI, GW says call him. Laura wants to know when you and Heather Locklear are coming by for dinner again.
All jokes aside, I really hate these voting machines. I don't like private entities controlling and possibly influencing elections. There's too much danger there - it can be used to undermine our democratic process.
Banks can record millions of transactions daily without error.
There is no reason one day of voting can't be recorded flawlessly.
Two things stop voting from going smoothly: 1 - Not spending enough on people and equipment to do the job. 2 - Some people have a vested interest in making sure that the public loses confidence in the vote.
There is nothing I can think of that is more of a danger to this country than the public losing confidence in the integrity of the vote. It should be sacred, and guarded with our lives. We take it too lightly, and if the liberals succeed in making it meaningless, this country will fall like a house of cards.
Friend of mine here in Pittsburgh just e-mailed me -- where she voted, the new machines died. Then they couldn't find the paper ballots. I told her I hope my polling place has the old mechanical monsters -- those things go back to at least 1940 and to my knowledge, they never broke down.
You bastard.
Oh for God's sake.
It's 2006.
Show the old lady your driver's license and voter's reg card, get out a barrel of purple ink and some paper with photos of the candidates on it, with a R for Republican, D for Democrat or I for Independent and O for other like the Green weenies, etc, on them.
Dunk your finger like the Kurds do, and get on with the
sh-t-ng grin part.
Seems to me that if rural Africa or Nowhere-a-stan can vote without all of this BS; it can be done in Ohio, or Idaho or wherever.
Delaware county (IN) was down early this morning, but according to people I know, it's fixed now. They issued provisional ballots or something to those who got there first thing in the morning.
I propose having elderly trained monkeys run the polls in these areas. They are one step up on the evolutionary scale from elderly untrained Democrats who are currently manning the polls in these benighted precincts.
For the third consecutive time, I was THE FIRST person to vote in my precinct :)
The only problems were the tally machines (paper and pen ballots) were beeping like crazy right at the start. The teenagers working the polls didn't understand the equipment at first, but finally got it figured out.
And Indiana has, for the first time, REQUIRED IDENTIFICATION for all voters. Truly a great start, ensuring that my legitemate vote won't be cancelled out by a fraudulent ballot.
Jean Schmidt couldn't vote for herself in OH-2 this morning. The scanner machines were broken. They just are storing the paper ballots, going to get machines that work, and feed them all in later as a group.
Cuyahoga County
DemocRAT bastion of Ohio. always the last to report so they know how many votes they need to get from the graveyard.
In my FL county early voting started on Oct. 23. I voted on that day on an electric machine and had no problems whatsoever. No stories of the machines breaking down in the weeks since.
I voted on a wacky Diebold machine today in Cuyahoga county (Cleveland and burbs). The person before me complained that it put the X on the wrong candidate. She called a poll worker over. Neither of them could get it to register the correct vote. The poll worker called over a couple other workers and said in a loud voice, "She wants to vote for XXXXX (D) and it won't register." Everyone in the place heard her vote. So much for the private ballot. She never could get that vote to register. I thought, oh, no, the Repubs will get blamed for her vote being locked out.
Then it was my turn to vote. Guess which machine I got? I hesitated but then figured, "I'm not stupid. I can get this to work."
All went well as I voted for Blackwell. When I got to the sec'y of state, it wouldn't register for either candidate. It just beeped. I hit it about 10 times. No deal, just beeps. I called over the worker and said, "Watch. It won't register." Of course, it DID register that time. Oh, well.
It happened on a few other candidates but it found you just have to mash the touch screen really hard and then it works. This was the only machine that was bad. My wife on another machine said just a light tap was all that was needed.
So, either I, RightWingAssault am a moron or the machines do have some issues. I'll let you decide.
There were lines since a lot of people never voted in the primary where the machines were first used, so people were really slow.
Some people are just slow voters anyway. They insist on reading the whole 2,000 word issue followed the the 500 word issue, followed by the 1,000 word issue. Nice to come prepared.
Had 4 Diebold touchscreens the lines were out the door and only 1 machine was in operation.
I heard no positive remarks about the new machines.
On a positive note they did want picture ID to vote. And there was no electioneering outside the polls.
The hacked program that DemocRATs loaded had a bug in it - my guess
We have people living in space, but we can't get a voting machine to work correctly. I don't believe it.
These stories were written weeks ago. All part of the DNC plot.
Folks, this is gonna get real ugly.
I was the first one to vote in my precinct this morning and was "delayed" by a voting machine problem. I reported to the poll worker that my machine wasn't working. He told me he couldn't help me vote. I said: "Mind if I plug the machine in myself then?"
Scary as it is, that is a true story. Some of the, shall we say, more experienced poll workers aren't skilled with the electronic machines.