Those Evil Voting Machines...

[emma72]

Zeb,

Would it be okay with you if your banks' ATM didn't print a receipt for you?

And if your accidently hit the wrong key, which people do all the time with ATM's, you get another chance. Not with electronic voting.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

And if your accidently hit the wrong key, which people do all the time with ATM's, you get another chance. Not with electronic voting.

That's not exactly true. With all computer systems you are asked how many times if you want to save or delete? At least once. So before you press the button that makes your votes final, Make Fucking Sure it's what you really want to do.

Personally, I have never had to back up or hit clear/cancel button for any transaction I have made. Of course tomorrow when I use it I will be hitting all the wrong buttons for having just said this.

 

[amicus]

Thanks for the thread, Zeb, interesting....

I guess no one wishes to mention the left wing group ACORN, in St. Louis, found guilty and charged with election fraud for 15,000 phoney registrations.

Gives me room for a little hope, seeing the left already claiming election fraud by machine when they haven't even lost yet!

Yet...mind you.


amicus...

 

[Boxlicker101]

Thanks for the thread, Zeb, interesting....

I guess no one wishes to mention the left wing group ACORN, in St. Louis, found guilty and charged with election fraud for 15,000 phoney registrations.

Gives me room for a little hope, seeing the left already claiming election fraud by machine when they haven't even lost yet!

Yet...mind you.


amicus...

All politicians are crooks, and it doesn't really matter where they are on the political spectrum. In a big city like St. Louis, the most successful crooks tend to be Democrats for reasons already stated.

By the way, do you really meant to say they were found guilty before they were charged?

As for election fraud by machine, there are many who believe that it was just such fraud that gave Ohio and the election to Bush in 2004. I won't make any accusations but I have my suspicions.

 

[TheOlderGuy]

don't ya love it when the GOP does GOTV?

A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is ignored.

Democrats said yesterday they consider the handbook, obtained by The Washington Post, evidence of a Republican effort to block people from voting Tuesday.

"The tenor of the material is that they are asking folks, if not directing them, to challenge voters," said Bruce L. Marcus, an attorney for the state Democratic Party. "It's really tantamount to a suppression effort."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103202.html

 

[amicus]

Yeah, sure, OlderGuy and I suppose asking for identification for social security, health care, welfare and other benefits also suppresses illegal immigrants?

gads...


amicus....

 

[Boxlicker101]

don't ya love it when the GOP does GOTV?

A recently distributed guide for Republican poll watchers in Maryland spells out how to aggressively challenge the credentials of voters and urges these volunteers to tell election judges they could face jail time if a challenge is ignored.

Democrats said yesterday they consider the handbook, obtained by The Washington Post, evidence of a Republican effort to block people from voting Tuesday.

"The tenor of the material is that they are asking folks, if not directing them, to challenge voters," said Bruce L. Marcus, an attorney for the state Democratic Party. "It's really tantamount to a suppression effort."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103202.html

A function of a poll watcher is to challenge voters if the watcher thinks they may not be legit. I would expect both Dems and Reps do so. You can't tell by looking at voters how they are going to vote but sometimes you can make an educated guess.

 

[BreeCarter]

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Those Evil Voting Machines...

There's just one week to go until Election Day, and already the hysteria is mounting...over voting machines. After the 2000 debacle in Florida, governments across the country have bought these electronic voting machines. But the media and Democrats, always pushing the "disenfranchised" lie, are trying to portray them as hard to use and inaccurate. After all, how can normal people be expected to use a voting machine? What if they vote for the wrong person?

Think about that position for a minute. Just about every person walking our streets has used an ATM machine. We use computers at home....which are much more complicated than any voting machine. People use self-serve grocery check-out stations. They pay at the pump for their gas. The voting machines are not complicated. They are not hard to use. But that's not the real issue here anyway.

I want you to consider the possibility that the real issue that Democrats fear is that the machines just might be accurate. For decades, Democrats have been propelled into office by election fraud. That is, people voting twice...dead people voting...people being paid off and told who to vote for, etc. The electronic voting machine gets rid of a lot of that. Computers are absolute...they only do exactly what people tell them to do...not what some Democratic precinct chief wants.

And then there's the whole issue of the soft bigotry of low expectations. Shouldn't the people who Democrats say are too dumb to work the machines be offended?

they aren't saying they're complicated. they're worried about people hacking (which they do, stupid or not) and cheat the system. granted, i don't think there are enough people who care enough to hack that many machines to really make a difference.

 

[Boxlicker101]

My wife and I already voted this election. We did so by filling in ovals on long cardboard sheets. No hanging chads. We will be baby sitting our granddaughter on election day, 100 miles from home, so we voted absentee.