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Evoting Problems in Ohio
deus_X_machina writes "The Columbus Dispatch is reporting that a computer error involving one voting-machine cartridge gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in a Gahanna precinct. Matthew Damschroder, director of the Franklin County Board of Elections, says the cartridge was retested yesterday and there were no problems. He couldn't explain why the computer reader malfunctioned."
No recounts. Nothing to recount. No Audit trail.
Consider the following:
"committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Walden O'Dell, CEO Diebold Inc.
The presidency has been stolen again, and this time they apear to have pulled it off without they lesser evil giving it the good fight.
Realities just a bunch of bits.
I hear you're having a problem with your TPS reports. Did you get the memo?
Yes, this is the same thing. It was a glitch. The glitch was corrected. Nothing to see here. I don't care who got the extra votes. This is just an outlet for slashdotters to complain about Bush and I consider that to be flamebait.
How does crap like this get modded insightful? You've got to stop drinking the tainted Kool Aid and wake the hell up. The exit polls were wrong everywhere. The networks began to realize there was a problem with the data when exit polls showed Kerry comptetative (and in some cases, up) in places like South Carolina, where Bush preformed strongly in 2000 and where polls leading up to the election had consistantly showed Bush preforming very strongly. Then the actual election returns started coming in, which which was the nail in the coffin for the exti poll data. Bush won South Carolina by 58% to 41%. Early exit poll data had them neck and neck. Exit poll data was wrong everywhere. Why you ask? Exit polls data is notoriously unrealibe, especially in a close race.
Great.
My short response to the conservatives who are gathering like pirhannas is: I'm trying to talk to people in my party. You're going to tear me to pieces for having a view that's not the same as yours? And your going to skew things so you can make yourself sound good?
Whatever. Democrats and liberals need to get together among ourselves and we need referendum. Any conservative who attacks me for saying that is flamebaiting or trolling.
The conservative-liberal discussion has been going on for a long time. You're not going to convince me today to give up and become a born again christian or a hard core republican. But if you're just going to throw verbal garbage into the discussion, I'm not interested.
As for painting *ALL* southerners as racist, you're just fanning the flames. I clearly stated that we democrats CAN embrace the south WITHOUT embracing bigotry. Read the post.
DID you read my post? I'm not even arguing that Bush is bad or that conservatives should change. I'm saying that we liberals have to get our act together. Attacking me doesn't make me go "oh this is hard.. I'll give up now". I remember how you can't even let me talk without attacking and mischaracterizing what I said.
Thanks, you've reminded me once more of what I think of conservatives; that some are ok but mostly the ones who talk, aren't interested in discussion, only in partisan attacks.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
Interesting you should point that out. I'm sure it didn't bother you all that much when Bush lost the electoral vote back in 2000.
Wow, so you actually voted for Bush, yet you have sufficient mental capacity to read and write! Well that throws all my theories on how he won the election out the window.
Which is exactly what I'm afraid of, since as near as I can tell Bush's ideal is to do everything possible to bring about the Battle of Armegeddon. Imagine his shock when he is not magically removed from the Earth by "The Rapture", and he has to endure the consequences of his actions with the rest of us sinners...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
You seem to have missed my point entirely. Most Christians I meet are anti-non-Christian bigots(hell, a lot of them are anti-everyone but those in my denomination-bigots. I tried coming to a consesus with them and I fail miserably. Why? Because they believe in absolutes, and coming together with an infidel is not part of their ideal for the government. They call it a Christian nation and want to make baptisms a part of the requirement to be a citizen, George Bush the elder said he doesn't even think that atheists are patriots. How am I supposed to react to such bigotry?
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Please, Christians in this country love to play the victim, while the persecute those who do not agree with them. I'm sorry, but I am just plain tired of Christians, I'm plain tired of, "Oh, Islam isn't a violent religion, just a few extremists" BS(The extremists are going to a mosque somewhere, and if these muslims aren't complicit they are complacent). I'm just so fucking sick and tired of preachers who say that because I'm a "liberal atheist", HItler and Mother Theresa are equivalent to me. When Christians stop persecuting atheists, when muslims stop blowing themselves up, when Jews stop shooting children in Palestine, when Hindus stop going on rampages murdering people simply because they are of a lower caste, then maybe I will start to "tolerate" religion.
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Ed Barbar, President and General Manager, Furnit USA