Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates

overThruster writes "Some voters in Las Vegas have noticed that Democrat Harry Reid's name is checked by default on their electronic voting machines. By way of explanation, the Clark County Registrar says that when voters choose English instead of Spanish, Reid's Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, has her name checked by default."

Comments

Fuck Electronic Voting Machines

[locallyunscene]

Seriously. If Democrats are pulling this and Republicans are renaming candidates "Rich Whitey" with this bald faced implausible deniability imagine what dirty tricks they are pulling behind closed source code. It's a fucking travesty.

Re:I abstain

[denis-The-menace]

RE: Any government elected under such circumstances cannot be considered legitimate.

This is why you NEVER see how many ballots were wasted along with the election results.

Even Joe-Six-Packs will see that there is a problem with the options to choose from or the system.

Instead we have "Democracy by obscurity".

Re:I abstain

[ffreeloader]

Not any more. The progressives are bringing up initiatives in several states to where a person can legally vote even if they are here legally. It's pure insanity, but that's the progressive agenda, pure insanity.

Re:I abstain

[modecx]

The one case that I can see non-English voting being valid: anchor-babies, born to illegal parents, but whom are citizens of the US because of very generous law--and who happen to have remained so culturally isolated that they don't know English. In some localities, it's entirely possible for one to live his life without learning an ounce of English.

Unlike prior immigrants, some (many?) have no desire to assimilate. Even our public schools bend over backwards to facilitate this bilingual culture, due in part to federal and state law, the most recent being the No Child Left Behind Act, which provides up to three consecutive years of bilingual education--and like prior efforts it tends to fail. We make it far too easy.

Surely this subset of people is so much of a minority, that it doesn't justify the costs. We didn't do it for the Germans, the Dutch, the Italians, Chinese, Poles or anyone else, who came here legally. Yet every damn government publication is produced in English and Spanish. What other country on this Earth would let that happen? Switzerland? They're small enough to get away with it.

Deseperation

[BCW2]

The Demonrats want their power and can't believe the voter won't agree. In New Bern, NC a woman tried to vote a straight R ticket and all the D's got checked, she cleared it and tried again, same result. Two more tries with poll workers in attendance, same thing, finally on the 5th try it recorded correctly. The people trying to rig this election should be tied to a tree, upside down, and fed Ex-Lax for a month!

Re:I abstain

[eldepeche]

"Drop a kid" "home base" "lands on your soil"

This is dehumanizing language.

The standards for being a citizen at birth are set in the Constitution, so good luck changing that law or challenging it.

Re:I abstain

[modecx]

Of course, you're right. There's no need for an anchor baby. They're already effectively homesteaded here, kids or not. They got a sweet 125% loan-to-value mortgage when the banks were handing out money like so much Halloween candy. They bought up fancy trucks and Cadillacs, and drive them with their illegitimate credentials, often without insurance. And while there's a non-zero chance that law enforcement will nab the parents and send them back, the probability is incredibly small--unless they do something to draw attention to themselves.

The reason I call them anchor babies is this: over the last few decades, Immigration has demonstrated a certain reluctance to send back the illegal parents of a US citizen. Whether or not you agree with that idea, it's documented, even if it's less common today. Also, consider this: the baby (and the parents, by proxy) may be eligible for welfare and a myriad of other social services.

Something must change.