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2004 Election Weirdness Continues
I've read dozens of submissions about election anomalies in the last week and they show no sign of slowing so I've decided to post a few of the main ones here to let you all discuss them. The first is the Common Dreams report
that shows that
optically scanned votes have a strange anomoly in florida: the Touchscreen counties roughly matched up to party registration numbers, but optically scanned paper ballot counties showed strangeness like one county where 69.3% registered democrat, but only 28% of them voted for Kerry.
Palm Beach County, Florida logged 88,000 more votes than there were voters;
that machines in LaPorte, Indiana discounted 50,000 voters;
in Columbus, Ohio voting machines gave Bush an extra 4,000 votes;
in Broward County, Florida voting machines were counting backwards;
Lastly,
precincts in New Mexico gave provisional ballots that will never be counted to as many as 10% of all their voters.
Your party lost the 2004 Presidential Election by nearly 4,000,000 (Four Million) votes. Please stop whining. Thank you.
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Referring to anyone as "the kind of people" makes you look like a douchebag. You are the tart cart conspiracy theorist talking about the CEO of Diebold. Go get a new tin foil hat and learn to lose with some dignity.
Here in Holland we have been using electronic voting machines for YEARS and nothing EVER went wrong. WHy can't the US with all their supreme technology not make a fail safe system like we have here?
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Your cause is woefully unsupported. Please stop fighting for justice and just have a hamburger.
Love,
Your Conquering Overlords
Seriously, just because narrow-mindedness, bigotry, self-service, and international vendetta and bullying is prevalent now doesn't mean it'll stay in style. People don't stop fighting for justice, peace, and equality just because they had a little setback. They cry, scream, and kick every step of the way, and when their cause is going to Hell they spit in the devil's eye on the way down.
So please, no more of this "please just lay down like a rug and take it like a good little Democrat" stuff. Yes, our candidate lost, which we will accept sure but not get over.
adam b.
Just because someone is registered Democrat does not mean they have to vote Democrat.
I would consider myself a very conservative Republican - yet I voted for Clinton in 1992 and 1996. As he was the right man for the time.
Also, what about the several hundred dogs that voted Democrat in Ohio, yes, dogs, as in Chows and Great Danes - they all voted Democrat. There were also a lot of dead people that voted Democrat in this election.
Look, however you hash it and whichever candidate cheated, you aren't going to find 3 million+ votes!!!
SLASHDOT HAS YET TO MENTION that Kerry cheated during the first debate - and that researching and enhancing the video would have been a great geek topic.
Further, I would like to add that Democrat Poll watchers in my area are under investigation for calling Republican voters and harassing them - I'm one they have harassed.
Because I did not like the unopposed candidate that was running for register of deeds - I had all my friends (47 total) vote for me - two of them have been called and told they were undermining our democracy by voting for me.
Yell & scream & rant & rave... it's no use... you need a shaaaave ~ Bugs Bunny
And yet, nowhere in that rambling, incoherent, unfocused post did you actually present any factual basis for the conclusion you presented. This does not surprise me in the least.
I could sum up why you voted for Bush in three words: you are stupid.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
Until and unless George Bush supports socialized medicine, ending corporate personhood, and taxing the largest multinationals enough to end the income tax, I won't believe a word he says.
And even then maybe not.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
OK all you majority of /.'ers who voted: shutup already!
/.'ers who is a military leader in the U.S. military or a politician of some sort you are the ones who can make a much more well informed decision about how to lead this country than can I or 99.5% of the /. population.
I skipped voting this year for just this reason. Everyone wants everyone else to go out and vote because "you're vote makes a difference!" or "let's make a change for America!" To that I say: Yay! I stole votes, yay!
Voting in this country DOES NOT make you (much) of a voice in government. Elections get rigged, votes get miscounted. Get over the fact that your candidate lost/won already! Voting DOES make you tied into (psychologically) one side or the other in this country. That DOES NOT mean that you know how to run a country, what issues are truly most important for our country to deal with (or how to deal with them), nor how to conduct military operations to deter terrorism or other threats to our sovereignty. Those are for specialists in those areas to decide, ultimately. Therefore, if you are one of the slim minority of
Our "founding fathers" were clearly not idiots and designed the Constitution and all other facets of our government to keep the kind of decision making power that our President, Congress, Senate, and judiciary wield in the hands of those capable of making such decisions in an informed (albeit not always unselfish) manner.
Wonder why Congressmen and women and Senators usually get to stay in Congress and the Senate for more than just one term? It takes time to learn how to lead a country, and once you've been in that role for your first few years you're already 10x more qualified than any other candidate in your home state to fulfill that role, whether you're all that good at it or not. It's the experience that counts most, and I think the majority of voters vote that way out of sheer laziness. "He/She is a recognizable name to me and I don't hate them so they're probably most qualified for the position, vote!" The battle for the Presidency is usually just a battle between who's got the most experience and the most power through their many years of service in political leadership roles. Do any of us honestly think that Kerry or Bush is necessarily the *BEST* leader in the country? I doubt it. Was John Kerry that politically powerful or well-known prior to this election? NO! Hillary Clinton is well-known and powerful, this new Barak Obama guy will be eventually be there... Kerry was just a fill in for a Democratic candidate this time around. Wait until 2008! What a battle of politically powerful people that's gonna be! LOL
So get over yourselves about the fucking election. The decision was made years ago about who would get elected this time around, and it wasn't really the American general public that made such a decision. If Kerry would've actually gotten elected it would've been a nice bonus, but I don't think the powers that be in the Democratic camp actually expected it to happen.
No your not the only one, the theory that Bush caused the Florida hurricanes is obviously very flawed 'thinking' and not even close to logic. Mycrfot
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Alright lefties, you're going to try this again?
Which outcome exactly are you hoping for?
Let's see...
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... gave up more and more everyday for 4 fuggin' years and they still don't give a shiet Usama Bin Laden is alive and enjoying a new career in amateur video.
American votes aren't counted.
Americans can be "declared" criminals.
Americans can be jailed without legal.
Americans can be jailed indefinately.
American homes can be searched.
Americans electronically monitored.
American business' monitored. Oh yes!
American private communications monitored.
American travel restricted.
American finanaces can be "frozen".
American media is silent (except Slashdot... yea
Goddess help you if you're NOT American because America will keep murdering, torturing, disappearing, and shoting, anyone declared an "enemy combatant".
If your skin is brown you're automatically on a terrorist list.
America
Then they "voted" in Bush. Yea... like the last time Bush was "voted" in?
Democrats in denial continue to try and find anything they can lay their hot little hands on to destroy George W. Bush. All rumors, unsubstantiated gossip, and half-baked "truths" will be trumpted to the highest in the hopes that some of it, no matter how ludicrous or absurd, will somehow stick to the President.
One wonders just how much scrutiny the voting system would be under if Kerry had won. One further wonders if this story would've even made it to Slashdot had it been the Republicans complaining about voting irregularities.
Bush won. Kerry lost. Get over it and start planning the next election. Perhaps next time you'll pick a better candidate. I would've voted for Lieberman had you nominated him, but you chose a left-wing flip-flop instead.
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I reject your assertion that there would be riots in the street, though. Probably just a strongly worded letter to the Guardian, and then back in the dole queue on Wednesday.
Potato chips are a by-yourself food.
The result speaks for itself. Most americans like what GWB stands for, bigotry, Americas Grandeur (delusional), hatred or fear of other people, the easy way out and the easy explanation. The election result could be questioned, but i think that not that many americans care more for a single Iraqi person than their big SUV's or their McDonals meal. The thesis that you could care for a stranger halfway around the globe is a myth. Evil has a nice taste and a good ring to it. Good is a bitter remedy and most people would rather be flogged than turn their back on evil. I say evil in the sense of people not caring for others, and only caring for their own wealth and prosperity. In that sense it sickens me to think that GWB considers himself a follower of Jesus, he would have turned the other cheek. Jesus says if you are not against me you are with me, not the other way around. It is also said that you should not take the lords name in vain.
you guys are fucking retarded
the only interests he has in mind are his own
i hope your jobs get outsourced next year
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
Much truth is said in gest.
Speaking of his looks doesn't he remind you of the kid on the cover of Mad Magazine?
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