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Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online?
shahman wonders: "I'll be on the road all day this election day, so the only access I'll have is through my PDA/Phone. I was wondering if any Slashdot readers know of WAP-enabled services or low-bandwidth sites that are providing (semi) real-time election coverage?" Nobbin has a similar, but less bandwidth-restrictive question: "I was wondering where I could find live results for the coming U.S. election, online. I live in Australia so I can't get them through watching CNN and so forth. I'm looking for something similar to the Austalian Electoral Commission's virtual tally room. So far, Google hasn't turned up much."
We Aussies may have our faults, but we're not quite as stupid as the Yanks. Why would we want Fox news?
Just go with the slashdot poll results.
They have been the same proportion all day.
still 18% bush, 43% kerry. (3907 v. 9285)
wow! still!!! 18% bush, 43% kerry - (4438 v. 10625)
And Again!!! 18% bush, 43% kerry - (6741 v. 16031)
Now, if only these people really will go out there and vote!!!
This is NOT a done deal until December when the Electorate votes. And we know how much they can screw things up!!!
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Sorry to be a pedant but Murdoch is a US citizen. He renounced his Australian citizenship to get around restrictions on media ownership. That, I think, tells you all you need to know about Murdoch's priorities. Fox News is a disgrace however - whatever the nationality of the owner.
I went to the polls in PA this morning at 6. There were already people standing on line to vote, and more were showing up early in droves. The democrats were there in full force, lying to people about having to prove their eligibility in order to vote. One woman, wearing a John Kerry button, who stated that she worked for the "Democrat Committee," who did not have the proper identification as such and did not give her name, was telling me and other people in line that we would need our ID if we wanted to vote. She stated that she was there to make sure people knew about the law, or something to that effect.
This is a blatant mistruth, as identification is required only if you have never voted in that precint before (this applies to PA only), and only if the person running the election asks for it.
If you plan to vote today at Precint 7, Ward 2, in Delaware county in Pennsylvania, beware of this woman. She has shoulder-length straight dark hair, very liberal-looking glasses (don't know how else to describe them), and was wearing a greenish overcoat this morning.
There were probably half a dozen people from Moveon.org and the Kerry campaign there intimidating people or trying to intimidate people into not voting, or into casting a vote for John Kerry.
The important thing is to vote for who you want to vote for and not to let yourself be harassed or intimidated into changing your vote or abstaining. I don't care if you're a democrat or a republican, it is despicable in the extreme to resort to these tactics. They amount to an attempt to steal the election.
As to your sig, hindsight is always 20/20. Those were not the justifications given before the war. If they were, I doubt we would be there right now. What gives you the right to send our military there? If he's so bad, and everyone is so worried about it, why don't they form their own force and take over? It's easy to be the world's police when it's not your life on the line.
E pluribus unum