Oh, this is just side-splitting. The Daily Kos summons up the Black Box Brigades and launches a fund-raising drive to fight evil Diebold, which Kos thinks stole a congressional election from a Democrat in Florida’s 13th district. “These are the……

As of now, Democrats have been given control of the House of Representatives, and there are two outstanding races in the Senate that will determine who controls that chamber. This is definitely going to make it harder for Republicans to……

As of now, Democrats have been given control of the House of Representatives, and there are two outstanding races in the Senate that will determine who controls that chamber. This is definitely going to make it harder for Republicans to get their init…

One remote precinct had about 547 people living there. Had a good turnout as 868 of them voted. Total was Lyndon Johnson 865, Coke Stevenson 3. When George Parr, the “Duke of Duvall County” was asked to explain that kind of result. He replied, “Three of those dumb Mexicans hung the string in the wrong place.”

So what is new at the polling place?

Republicans will do the unthinkable and hold the house and senate and even pick up a couple seats.

YHIHF.

7.30 pm: Missouri’s last polls HERE as well as Montana’s polls HERE. Robert Byrd is reelected God Damn It!

7.23 pm: With a 42% turnover, it looks as if the GOP has managed to attract its voters to the ballots. Here are the last outcomes availabl…

This is my first comment and I look forward to bringing absolutely nothing to the table.

just voted using those machines. Everything went fine. But I couldn’t find Kerry or Bill Clinton’s name anywhere. I thought they were running for something, seeing as I saw them in every single commercial.

Did not see George Bush either although everyone was running against him. Strange!

I voted a straight republican ticket, and where there was no republican running, I wrote in Ronald Reagan.

JackM on November 7, 2006 at 11:29 AM

Hah… Too funny. I gotta remember that for next time.

- I am required to show government-issued photo ID.
- I am allowed to anonymously fill in my paper ballot or use the electronic voting machine without a moonbat “observer” filming me.
- I am issued some kind of receipt with a unique serial number on it and a confirmation of my choices. After the election is certified, I can visit a website and enter the serial number on my receipt to confirm that my choices were correctly recorded.

Of course there wasn’t becuase there were no machines in those counties and 2000.

How could you forget THE HANGING CHAD…

Yup.

And how could you forget Democrats SCREAMING afterwards for electronic voting …?

Oh, the irony. It burns, it burns.

There wasn’t anything wrong with the machines in those 4 Florida counties in 2000 and there’s nothing wrong with them now…

Of course there wasn’t becuase there were no machines in those counties and 2000.

How could you forget THE HANGING CHAD…

Michelle focuses on the Dems’ pre-delegitimization of the elections.
Be afraid! Be very afraid of Diebold!
Just kidding. I think the dead voters, mail-in voters, non-ID voters, and ACORN voters are much more problematic than the technical……

The only way to completely rid ourselves of “flaws” in the electoral process would be to dispense with the secret ballot so that audits can be performed after the fact. A record would be made of every vote ever cast – and would be on the record. And if your vote suddenly showed up a few days after election day on a website that didn’t jibe with the one you cast, then an investigation could ensue.

So what do people think of Urbancenturion’s idea? (Great name, by the way!). What’s wrong with it? Wouldn’t it just about solve every problem – if you could later check your OWN vote?

You could even keep it semi-secret by publishing votes by Social Security #.

Seems workable to me.

Same here in Indy. We used to have ancient pull-lever machines, but a few election cycles ago they got the electronic ballot readers. I’ve never heard of any problems or controversies. Every time I’ve voted it was smooth sailing.

The only way to completely rid ourselves of “flaws” in the electoral process would be to dispense with the secret ballot so that audits can be performed after the fact. A record would be made of every vote ever cast – and would be on the record. And if your vote suddenly showed up a few days after election day on a website that didn’t jibe with the one you cast, then an investigation could ensue.

JackM, good idea. If the dead can vote, then the dead should be able to hold office. Ronaldus Magnus from the grave is better than Kennedy/Kerry/Clinton, et al stealing oxygen.

The public has no idea how these machines work. With paper ballots, there are publicly available procedures for counting votes. Not so with electronic voting machines.

We’ve been using a paper ballot which you then feed into an optical scanner for years. It seems like the best of both worlds. If you can read, you can’t screw the ballot up, and there will always be an original paper record of each vote if something happens to the electronic data, intended or unintended. There’s also no human involved in the counting unless the ballot is messed up…in which case the scanner won’t accept it until a poll worker gets you straightened out.

I don’t recall anyone ever requesting a recount other than a write in candidate for a city post a few years back.

And maybe I’m mistaken, but I thought you needed to have ID on you if you were over 18 in case you had a run in with the police. Am I mistaken here? Maybe it’s just my NYC upbringing where I saw the cops trying to take back the city under Giuliani after Dinkins nearly destroyed the place.

Yes, I held my nose and voted for Tom Kean Jr. for Senate. He’s a buffoon, but he doesn’t appear to be corrupt like Menendez is, at least not yet. Have a good day all.

We here in the Peoples Republic of Washington (King and Snohomish counties) don’t have to worry about mamma machine. Polling places are outlawed by [imperial] decree.

Instead we are forced to vote by mail. Makes it easier for the dead, illegals, felons, and imaginary friends to vote – they don’t have to show id or even exist in the same reality.

Same here on the other side of WA State (Franklin Co.) I hate it.