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Aftermath Of Failed Electronic Voting
dstates writes "The Christian Science Monitor and NPR report that failed electronic voting machines lost thousands of votes in Carteret County North Carolina, and the election for state agriculture commissioner is headed to court. A combination of human error (setting the machine to record a maximum of three thousand votes when eight thousand people voted) and a software malfunction (the machine kept accepting ballots after its memory was overloaded) resulted in the loss of 4,500 votes in an election decided by only 2,300 votes."
D'you think it's because North Carolina was John Edwards' home state, mebbe
Except, of course, that the errors were in Bush's favor. That means it's a vicious Democratic conspiracy, natch.
Look man, I'm a Democrat because the GOP has become so jaw-droppingly criminal and almost cult-like. And don't give me any of that "they're all corrupt" BS, because when it comes to corruption, no one can hold a candle to the modern Republican party. Don't believe me? Do your own research. I did, and was as surprised as anyone at the outcome.
Yes, there are crooks on both sides of the aisle. No, it is not a 50/50 split.
When it comes to vote fraud, though, if the Democrats had any balls they'd be stringing up certain Republicans up by their scrawny fascist necks. Justice freakin' demands it.
I think I can safely speak for /., when I say that the suspense in knowing who will be NC's Agriculture Commissioner has me stuck to the edge of my seat with excitement.
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
There is absolutely no reason that we can't have an honest and reliable election system in this country.
Actually, there are two major reasons: the Republican Party, and the Democratic Party.
It used to be that the Democrats were the dominant party, and also the one that was well known for widespread voting fraud. But the Republicans seem to have learned, and have taken the lead in both areas.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Don't feed the trolls. This guy is so far removed from reality that you can't reason with him. Besides, he is doing our party a favor by believing all of those obvious lies. If he only realizes what the rest of America thought of him...
As for the real Republican party, you only have to walk ten steps to see the effects of it. Afghanistan, once under shariah by the Taliban, is now free and democratic. Iraq, once under the murderous tyrannnical despot Hussein, is on track for elections. Al Qaeda and ALL major terrorist rings are on the run. The United States has yet to be hit by another terrorist attack, while Spain has been hit by two. North Korea is looking at regime change (bet you didn't know that, did you!) China is cooperating with the US and looks like they will be our ally against North Korea. The US has unprecedented influence in the old Soviet Union, with Yuschenko likely the next president of the Ukraine. The economy is doing better than it did in the 80's, which was better than it did in the 90's. Unemployment is at all-time lows. There's this new concept of an ownership rather than rent society, where people own things rather than borrow them. More and more people are owning their own homes or their own businesses or their own retirements. National crime rate is at a low. Taxes have been significantly cut for everyone, and it looks like it will get cut again. Social Security is finally going to get the overhaul it needed 30 years ago to keep it solvent. Medicare now covers prescription drugs, thus reducing the cost of medical care for our seniors. I can go on and on.
All signs point to a nation led by a party that is doing wonderful things in the world.
About the negatives. Is there corruption? There is always some corruption. If there weren't any, our nation would be carried up into heaven like Enoch's city of ancient times. However, the level of corruption at national levels seems to be at a low. The kinds of corruption we hear about are things that are very minor compared to ten years ago.
Foreign opinion of us isn't too favorable. But I don't hold the opinions of French, Russian, and Chinese officials with too much weight, especially because of the multi-billion dollar scandal they were involved in that undermined the US' foreign interests. (Hint: Kofi Annan is being asked to resign because of this scandal.) Also, when we discover fresh military equipment from our so-called allies being used against us, it causes me to wonder why we call them allies in the first place. You should conduct the opinion polls in the place where it matters. Go ask the Afghans or Iraqis what they think of us. Or cross the border into neighboring Iran and ask them what they would like us to do. (Hint: During the Afghan bombing raids, they would paint "BOMB US NEXT!" on their rooftops. Betcha didn't hear that either?) Go ask your local Iraqi who is an expatriot living in the US what they think of the US. You should check the pro-Bush rallies at state capitals and in DC if you want to find them. Betcha didn't hear that either?
Go ahead and allow the left to ignore all of the good things and focus on rumors and unsubstantiated claims. The more the far-left does it, the more the republicans will win in '06 and '08. (Hint: We may get that 60 seat majority in the senate as early as 2006. Count the number of red states, and multiply by 2. That comes to over 60.) Remember, the keyword of Bush's presidency is "misunderestimate". The left, the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Saddam, and Kim Jong Il are all doing a great job misunderestimating our president.
The radical sect of Islam would either see you dead or "reverted" to Islam.