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Paper Ballots Will Return In MD and VA
cheezitmike writes "According to a story in the Washington Post, 'Maryland and Virginia are going old school after Tuesday's election. Maryland will scrap its $65 million electronic system and go back to paper ballots in time for the 2010 midterm elections. In Virginia, localities are moving to paper after the General Assembly voted last year to phase out electronic voting machines as they wear out. "The battle for the hearts and minds of voters on whether electronic systems are good or bad has been lost," Brace said. The academics and computer scientists who said they were unreliable "have won that battle."'"
Will that be nigger or geriatric?
Not that I disagree that there's a lot of stupidity in the world over, but, to me it's interesting to note that all your examples are idiocy in America.
I've not seen any proof of problems with ethics and accountability. There may be some questions but the e-mail hack put some of those questions to bed (though that didn't stop people from claiming it confirmed them). The biggest issue I see is that she's a woman who's attained a relatively high office and isn't beholden to the Feminist movement. They -can't- allow her to succeed. She's not cut from the right mold.
As to why McCain picked her, I've got no clue. But, I suspect that it has something to do with her helping break the back of the Republican machine that ran Alaska, including (I think the Slashdotters would like this) Ted "Tubes" Stevens. It was clearly a risky choice picking her but I've rarely ever seen such vehemence directed towards someone as I've seen directed towards Palin. It was mad poo-flinging from Daily Kos and everyone else as soon as she was announced as they hoped something would stick.
Lastly, I find it sad that you would advocating assassinating people just to get to someone you like if the election weren't to go your way.
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If you don't care enough about voting to have valid ID to vote, you don't care enough about voting to really know what/who you are voting for.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison