Re: You're welcome, USA

Watch the documentary Hacking Democracy and you find out even more about the
great state. They were throwing away a tape from the 2004 election where
they changed the tape total for Bush from an electronic machine.
Also they showed how easy it is to "fix" electronic votes. Very horrible!

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Sue -- Firefighter mom -- Still Rabid UW Dawg Fan!
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"haggis" <haggis58@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Report from the Sarasota, FL area is not so great. . . After spending
something crazy like $43 million dollars on touch-screen voting crap, it
seems that there were "irregularities" that caused "undervoting" on a
key race. . . The supervisor of elections is now asking the county to go
back to paper ballots. (It's only money, right?)

Seems that not only was this race stuck away on the bottom of a page
(all the other races were one to a page), but loads of people reported
that when they got to the part where they reviewed their votes before
hitting that "VOTE" button, that race was mysteriously blank. Obviously,
many who weren't so attentive went ahead and cast their vote--resulting
in thousands of votes going missing on that race alone. This phenomenon
was predominantly in one district--heavily black and always pretty much
a straight Dem voting bloc. Lots of noise about demanding a re-vote.

In that same race, it's also come to light (as I read in today's letters
to the editor) that a lot of people had declared they would not vote for
the Dem candidate because her campaign had sent the robo-callers on a
rampage and people were getting several calls a week. Turns out that if
they'd listened to the whole, long message, they would've found that
yes, she was mentioned at the beginning of the call--but by the time you
got to the end, they were starting to badmouth all the things the
Democrats were going to do if elected and a quiet "this call is on
behalf of the GOP candiate" at the very end.

Yep, from the state that gave you Katherine Harris stealing votes from
Al Gore, I give you politics as usual in the great state of Florida. . .

The one bright note here is that Katherine Harris was soundly defeated.
I don't think I've heard of one honest or useful thing she'd done in
office, from political favors to coopting the use of priceless artwork
from state museums to decorate her office. Pfft.

jeanne

Donna wrote:
From a voter in the state where Allen conceded - you are welcome. The
house
and senate are now dem majorities.



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