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More Voting Shenanigans in Florida
stewwy writes "It looks like the the shenanigans have started already, the Register is running a story about the difficulty early voters are having with casting votes for Democrats." From the article: "The touch-screen gizmos seem strangely attracted to Republican candidates. One voter needed assistance from an election official, and even then, needed three tries to convince the machine that he wanted to vote for Democrat Jim Davis in the gubernatorial race, not his Republican opponent Charlie Crist."
I'm no statistician, but if the problems with electronic voting machines were simply crap software, and not intentional election rigging, wouldn't there be more evidence of errors in favor of Democratic candidates? Seeing everything always thrown to the GOP seems to be good signs of a conspiracy, factored with the CEOs of the voting machine companies promising to deliver votes to the GOP or getting elected by their machines.
Incidentally, Florida's Senate race this year is between Democratic incumbent Ben Nelson and Florida Congresswoman Katherine Harris. Harris is of course the former Florida Secretary of State under the President's brother (Governor Jeb Bush), who knocked tens of thousands of African American names off the voter rolls in 2000.
Harris, who has been very vocal in her view that only Christians should be elected to higher office and that anybody who is not a Christian will "legislate sin", however is down by 25 points in the polls behind Nelson (according to an average of the last 5 polls in the race), and doesn't have a shot in hell of winning... Unless....
Plus, considering that it's Florida, User Error is a good bet.
Thats the ticket, let's just joke about Florida! That way we don't have to deal with things like making voting actually secure and idiotproof, we can just have people like you do the job of turning our elections into a joke!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
Replace 'clever' with 'white' and see how it reads.
I don't see how randomly drawing lines along the cleverness scale helps us out in any way. But then I don't see how voting at all helps, so I'm probably shouldn't bother commenting anyway.
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What a surprise. My comment was modded down as a "Troll" by speech supressors with Mod points. Well, you only have one mod point Mr. "Free Speech for me but not for thee." But I can post many times. Here is my above post, quoted for emphasis.
"You won't find one.
Not because it hasn't happened, it probably has. But because it doesn't fit the Liberal Media Template for reporting on voting machine irregularities. Ever since 2000 with all the "Hanging Chad" crap, and for every election since then, the Template has been "Eeevil Republicans are trying to "steal" the election by rigging the polls!" Then you get unfortunate quotes from the president of Diebold (the company that makes the lion's share of the voting machines) saying that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." in 2003, and the template was set in stone from then on. (Of course, the Diebold president was talking about his campaign and fundraising efforts, but Leftists aren't known for letting the facts stand in the way of a good conspiracy theory.)
So no, you will never see a story about a poor Republican who was somehow "tricked" into voting for Democrats by the eeevil voting machines. It doesn't fit the template, and it won't get reported. Period.
Go ahead and mod me down, but speaking the truth is not trolling. It's just too bad the speech supressors with mod points won't understand that."
Enjoy!
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"there is direct evidence, which you ignore, to show that your theory doesn't fit the facts."
Um.. No. In fact there is a large amount of data which shows that my "theories" ARE fact. It was modded as a troll by Free Speech Suppressors fairly quickly, so you may have missed my earlier post with the link to several studies showing that there is indeed a Liberal media bias in America. My opinion is borne out by scientific study and fact.
On the other hand, the opinion that the voting machines are deliberately being tampered with to skew elections has only a small handful of voting irregularities (well within the norm for any election, e-voting or not.) and a SHITLOAD of kooky conspiracy theories. No real evidence, nothing concrete to back it up, just a bunch of hand wringing and inanity.
Occams Razor dictates that the simplest answer is most likely the correct one. What is more likely; That a national conspiracy involving Diebold, The Republican party, and THOUSANDS of election workers of all political stripes banded together to hand elections over to the Bush and the Republicans, OR, that a company has made an inferior product that sometimes causes irregularities in the voting records?
It seems to me that one would have to be a blind partisan not to see the obvious choice here.
Again, what is more likely; That a national Press corps comprised of individuals that overwhelmingly (over 80%) vote Democrat and Liberal in every election in the past 30 years might just tend to color thier reporting with a leftist view, and that over the years, that view would have seeped into the manner in which they conduct thier business and select stories to run, OR, that all the members of the national press corps except Fox News are PERFECT HUMANS capable of no wrong and are COMPLETELY UNBIASED in everything they do, and it's just those evil Republicans and Bill O'Reilly that are trying to pull the wool over people's eyes?
Again, one would have to be a blind partisan not to see the obvious.
Logic. It's good for me, for you, and for the country. Try it sometime!
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