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Super Tuesday Not So Super For Electronic Voting
October_30th writes "It's Super Tuesday in 10 states (including California, New York and Ohio) and various reports are coming in that the equipment built by Diebold and various other manufacturers is proving more troublesome than previously anticipated."
Of what importance is knowing media's name for the day? The name "super tuesday" has no bearing on real politics. In fact, I will happily taunt the Europeans who fill their heads with such mindless trivia.
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
In short, perhaps if we voted on weekends, perhaps more people would turn out to vote, thus cheating in elections would be less effective?
When has a Republican controlled government EVER done anything to promote democracy? Sure, there's bad guys on both sides of the aisles, but the Republicans are damn near zealous in their attempts to thwart any and all attempts at making voting an easier or fairer process.
I hope everyone realizes that we Californias got stupid-ass electronic voting because the stupid aged retards in West Palm beach, Florida were incompetent to use PUNCH CARDS.
After that, it was the Democrat party of California that screamed for electonic voting to make it easier for their older/less educated/illegal immigrant supporters to vote in whatever language they wanted. They even had the ACLU fight the election last year because too many minorites were NOT getting electronic systems.
No sane person of either party would ever want to see electronic voting - but alas, thanks to the folks that bitched about how Gore really won (he didn't), people like Kevin Shelley of the Democrat party forced us (Californias) to use fscked up electronic voting systems.
So - if any mor of you Bush-hating hatemongers keep bitching about electronic voting - just look to California - and see that THEY complained about minorities not getting to use electronic voting - see how they tried to prevent, then overturn the outster of Davis using the arguement that minorities were being dienfranchised because they didn't get electronic systems, and how it was the Democrats in chrage of this state that have brought our election system to ruin by their own devices.
Both the Democrats and Republicans are looking to have electronic systems put in place because both shitty parties think that it will make it easier for them to rig shit in the future....
so all you Democrat hatemongers - just STFU. This stupid problem is being caused by BOTH parties.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
Look, I'ma War President [smirk]. Since 9/11, we realized we can't sit around waiting for things to happen. We need to act now. Al Queda operatives are trying to destroy America. Saddam was a dangerous evil dictator. By hurting big business, the terrorists will win. Democrats want to let the terrorists win, tax corporations and put "Queer Eye" reruns on C-Span. These are things we know.
Now, I don't know about you, but that last election? Where people say I didn't win [lip curl], even though the U.S. Supreme Court had run out the clock to make sure I did [grin]? Well, I felt bad when I heard those poor old, octogenarian Jews in Palm Beach County get all confused over the Butterfly ballots.
Now, with those electric voting machines? We can just flip a switch and turn those confused votes into the proper votes. We don't have time to wait around for the machines to be modified to keep paper records. At least not until after the re-election [smirk].
I have been assured by all the electric voting systems companies, all great supporters of the Republican Party, that their machines are in perfect working order and don't need audits or a paper trail to mess things up. Don't let the terrorists win!
Here come da fudge!
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Quit your fucking whining, it's been four goddomned years. SHUT UP ALREADY, EVERYONE KNOWS THIS. Take a high school class on our political system to learn what the electoral college is, and why it's better than popular vote, you fucking troll.