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Man's Vote for Himself Missing In E-Vote Count
Catbeller writes "The AP is reporting that Randy Wooten, mayoral candidate for Waldenburg Arkansas (a town of eighty people) discovered that the electronic voting system hadn't registered the one vote he knew had been cast for him ... because he cast it himself. The Machine gave him zero votes. That would be an error rate of 3%, counting the actual votes cast — 18 and 18 for a total of 36." From the article: "Poinsett County Election Commissioner Junaway Payne said the issue had been discussed but no action taken yet. 'It's our understanding from talking with the secretary of state's office that a court order would have to be obtained in order to open the machine and check the totals,' Payne said. 'The votes were cast on an electronic voting machine, but paper ballots were available.'"
Hey Republicans had every chance to look at the issue and stop whoring out our country to super duper corporations, but chose instead to listen to Rush Limbaugh and ilk mock anybody who brought up this issue, calling them whiners and crybabies.
You are not a crybaby or a whiner are you? Are you ready to recognize that it is crucial for our native to survive as a democracy that we elect people who actually give a crap about stuff like this? How shameful that it took you losing an election to actually give a crap about whether people are actually elected fairly or not.
I guess it gives you a bigger woody to bash those damn "liberals", and blame every problem ever on them, and to label anyone not Republican and "conservative" a traitor or a pervert. WTG!!!!