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Electoral-Vote.com Returns for 2006 Elections
Klaus writes "In the 2004 Presidential race, the website electoral-vote.com tracked individual state polls, providing a map of the changing political scene. The map, updated daily, was a phenomenal success. The site is back for the 2006 Congressional elections. It is providing descriptions of the top 40 House races, and all 33 Senate races, as well as valuable information for prospective voters." Remember, your vote counts. Make it out there on November 7th.
Didn't the author claim microkernels would prevail?
And now, a PSA from David Lynch.
In case you don't know, the guy behind this website is Andy Tanenbaum, the Minix guy, the Linus Torvalds flameware guy, the Modern Operating System guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tanenbaum
"In 2004 Tanenbaum created electoral-vote.com, a popular web site analyzing opinion polls for the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, using them to project the outcome in the Electoral College."
Yes, poll disparity does in fact indicate tampering. In fact, I know people personally who were prevented from voting by republican poll challengers. Considering that I live in a "blue state", I would have to say that it was very wide spread.
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Google provides some good info on its first search page: http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls
I seem to recall seeing something on some conservative websites, where they were spreading a belief that the democrats were going to try and steal the election in 2004. Thus I believe that many poll challengers believed that they were combating fraud, while in fact they were contributing to it.
Google doesn't do so good on this one:
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&lr=&saf
The media was well aware that the election was being stolen. They had to be. There were in fact some stories posted on CNN's web site for a short period of time in regards to election problems... but does anyone ever remember seeing anything appear on any of their TV networks?
Also, despite electoral-vote.com's popularity and dozen or so mirror sites. They were ALL ddosed into oblivion on the night of the election. Or doesn't anyone recall that? What other reason would someone ddos a site containing nothing but collected poll information if not to suppress it.
Non sequitur: Your facts are uncoordinated.
you can use the mirror sites www.electoral-vote2.com and www.electoral-vote3.com. He had problems in 2004 with people coordinating dos attacks against the site.
"The bass, the rock, the mic, the treble. I like my coffee black, just like my metal" - Mindless Self Indulgence
I'll assume that you weren't following the campaign closely, and aren't just trolling, but that is pretty much exactly wrong. The party bosses opposed Lamont from the start, not wanting to spend resources on Lieberman's "safe" seat. It was the grass roots that kept pushing for a candidate that represented the views of the people. The party only got behind him (to the extent that they have) reluctantly and well after he won the supposedly unwinable primary.
Again, I'll assume that you aren't just trolling, but this is plain nuts. First, it isn't a single issue race (which issue were you thinking, anyway? Reproductive rights? The war? Big pharma vs. the consumer? Lobbyist reform? Immigration? Ethics?). But regardless of which issue you pick, if you look at Lieberman's actions (and ignore is posturing) he's hardly a liberal, and not at all in step with the bulk of the voters (of all flavors) that he supposedly represents. Finally, is big problem is really that he long ago stopped having anything to do with his district, and became a "national politician" who only wanted them as a backdrop for his leap to higher office (which he has repeatedly failed to grasp).
They are, to put it bluntly, fed up with being used.
--MarkusQ
You can speculate all you want, or you can read the 77 page report from the company who did the exit polls.
Don't mind beng modded down - must be a Right-Winger or an extermely uninformed Mod who modded up the parent as Insightful. So all the reports of widespread voting irregularites and voter suppression in a state governed by the GW's brother were all just a teensy-weeensy co-ink-a-dince?
The election was stolen - the Diebold machines are a plot to steal yet another election.
The 2004 Ohio election results have recently been ordered to be held and not destroyed, since they might record yet another reversal of GW's fortunes.
Wiki has a nice summary of what passed for Democracy in "Kent State Ohio".
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair" - George Washington
No, the post is refering to the maintainer of electoral-vote.com, Dr. Andrew Tanenbaum, who in 1992 instigated a heated debate with Linus Torvlads on the comp.os.minix newsgroup about the relative merits of microkernels vs. monolithic kernels. Tanenbaum maintained that "LINUX is obsolete" and suggested that "people who want a **MODERN** "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that." Of course, history tells us that millions of businesses and individuals disagree with his position.
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O'Reilly has a transcript:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/a
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted -- enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. --Niels Bohr