Re: You're welcome, USA

If that is, indeed, proven fact, they should mandate a revote. It is simply wrong to allow that kind of deception and those responsible should be in jail. They know damned well nobody has the patience tolisten to the whole message.

haggis wrote:
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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