[Ludite]

NYT: BE PREPARED FOR CHAOS ON ELECTION DAY; NEW MACHINES, LINES, CONFUSION
Wed Oct 18 2006 19:12:07 ET

With an unusually large number of tight races and dozens of states shifting to new electronic voting systems, election officials across the country are bracing for long lines and heightened confusion at the polls on Election Day, Nov. 7, the NEW YORK TIMES will front on Thursday.

"North Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Mississippi and Missouri are among the states considered most likely to experience difficulties, according to voting experts who have been tracking the new technology and other election changes.

[Whirlwind]

Why aren't we talking about it? Because those who still feel voting works must believe in the integrity of the system. Those who don't believe voting works, see electronic voting as just another method available to be manipulated.

[cecil]

When voting insist on using the paper ballots. Some people at the polls will try and get you to believe that the paper ballots are for the handy capped. This is b.s. YOU HAVE A CHOICE. Use the paper ballots and show that is what is prefered by the majority. Leave an audit trail.

[darleneann]

Absentee ballot = paper trail.

[Daisy Lee Myers]

FLOR-I-DUH

WE START VOTING EARLY-- NEXT WEEK.

will vote on nov 7th. i like being around the crowds!

daisy

ps- "gay" Charlie Crist(RePUBICan) is predicted to win the governorship due to his exposure as state attorney General too.
jim davis, Democrat is way behind.

PSS- AND gov JEB "CrOW" BUSH COMES BAcK TO MIAMI TO HELP billionaire dr. phillip frost start his third drug company. JEB BUSH IS MERELY THE "FIGURE HEAD." not as DUMB AS HIS BRO according to folks that know hIm. WSJ may publish soon on jeb and dr frost....

billionaire dr phillip frost, miami beach

http://www.mycontinu...i?person=pfrost

This post has been edited by Daisy Lee Myers: 20 October 2006 - 03:38 PM

[erstwhile]

Daisy: I ran into Charlie Crist at Publix the other night and he had a bottle of Dove body wash in his hand basket. PROOF!

[AugustChillLancaster]

Why aren't we talking about it? Because those who still feel voting works must believe in the integrity of the system. Those who don't believe voting works, see electronic voting as just another method available to be manipulated.

Well, if it's electronic, it CAN be manipulated. Brings me to this: Saw Man of the Year last night (Robin Williams) - HYSTERICAL and centers around this very issue of computerized systems and all that can go wrong with them.



Go see the movie. Great for a laugh.

[justplainjoe]

not as DUMB AS HIS BRO ..........

not many people are.LOL
the repubs can only steal an election if it is close. there is so much anger at jr and the repubs for what they have done to us any attempt to steal this election will reult in the storming of dc by the peasants with pitchforks, staves, and lanterns.
okay maybe not the staves and lanterns, but there will be hell to pay.

This post has been edited by justplainjoe: 21 October 2006 - 01:06 PM

[Darby]

THIS is what needs to be talked about:

http://www.ctv.ca/se...61019?hub=World

Latino voter warning linked to Republican campaign
Updated Thu. Oct. 19 2006 11:24 PM ET

Associated Press

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- State investigators have linked a Republican campaign to letters sent to thousands of Orange County Hispanics warning them they could go to jail or be deported if they vote next month, a spokesman for the attorney general said.

"We have identified where we believe the mailing list was obtained," said Nathan Barankin, spokesman for Attorney General Bill Lockyer.

He declined to identify the specific Republican campaign Wednesday, citing the ongoing investigation. The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register both reported Thursday that the investigation appeared to be focused on the campaign of Tan D. Nguyen, a Republican challenger to Democratic U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez.

The letter, written in Spanish, tells recipients: "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time."

In fact, immigrants who are naturalized U.S. citizens can vote.

Complaints about the letters this week prompted state and federal investigations, and Barankin said investigators had been questioning people in Orange County.

The two newspapers reported state investigators had found the location where the letters were printed and mailed to an estimated 14,000 Democratic voters in central Orange County. The Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source, said authorities had interviewed Nguyen at his office.

Nguyen did not return messages left by The Associated Press or either newspaper.

Sanchez said in an interview Thursday on Univision that the sender should be punished for stating that immigrants can't vote. It would be unfortunate if the person responsible was another immigrant, she said.

"What a shame, really, that this is still happening in the United States today," Sanchez said.

The owner of Huntington Beach-based Mailing Pros, Christopher West, told The Orange County Register that he was hired to do the mailings but didn't know what they said and didn't know any laws were being broken when the mailer was sent. He said he gave investigators the name of the person who hired him.

"I'm the one that processed it, and I don't read Spanish," West said. "Until the investigator read it to me, I didn't know the content."

Scott Baugh, chairman of the Orange County Republican Party, condemned the letter as "an obnoxious, grotesque piece of work."

"Regardless of who did it -- Republican or Democrat -- if it's a crime, then whoever did it should be prosecuted," Baugh said.

A group of six Vietnamese-American political candidates running for offices in Orange County issued a joint statement saying: "The content of this mailer is offensive to the immigrant voters, regardless of their ethnicity."

The note's letterhead resembles that of an anti-illegal immigration group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform, but group leader Barbara Coe said she told investigators for the attorney general's office Wednesday that her group didn't authorize the letter and she didn't know who sent it.

"The letterhead was altered and I've never head of any Sergio Ramirez," the name signed to the letter, Coe said.

Numerous political leaders including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have denounced the letter and called for the investigations.

[Whirlwind]

In Santa Ana CA maybe. Unless you are referring to the underlying issue of who can vote in this country. That should be a short debate.