Update: Palm Beach County has updated their numbers and added 91,802 absentee ballots and 1,041 provisional ballots. Note that the vote totals for president only increased by 1,543 votes. To view an archived copy of the previous report, click here. While Palm Beach County appears to have accounted for the discrepancy, this underscores the flaws in the system and data compilation.
You make a post on Slashdot - read my millions of nerds - on a thread about defective voting machines, saying that Diebold machines have told us that Bush won the election.
I post a clarification along with a link describing the actual manufacturer of the defective voting equipment and explain that these were not Diebold machines - and for this you call me an uppity right winger with no sense of humour?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041105/D865SVN80.html
Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365.
Franklin is the only Ohio county to use Danaher Controls Inc.'s ELECTronic 1242, an older-style touchscreen voting system. Danaher did not immediately return a message for comment.
Vote count problem in San Francisco (Not Diebold)
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Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with software designed for the city's new "ranked-choice voting," in which voters list their top three choices for municipal offices. If no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes outright, voters' second and third-place preferences are then distributed among candidates who weren't eliminated in the first round.
When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried a test run on Wednesday of the program that does the redistribution, some of the votes didn't get counted and skewed the results, director John Arntz said.
"All the information is there," Arntz said. "It's just not arriving the way it was supposed to."
A technician from the Omaha, Neb. company that designed the software, Election Systems & Software Inc., was working to diagnose and fix the problem.
I was taking 9/11 canard of "why do the terrorists hate us?" to its logical conclusion.
Some people believe that if someone hates you, and you can discover why they hate you, that surely you can come to some understanding.
So I asked a perfectly reasonable question of the thread parent of how the Jews and the Chinese could have prevented their aggressors from hating them.
It's hard for people to admit that there are irrational ideologies and hatred in the world. People like to believe that everything is logical and that the victims must have done something to incite the animosity towards themselves.
Are you implying that the Gore supporters in 2000 would not have supported Chinese troops removing Bush from the White House and installing Gore as President?
The article states "NAACP officials claimed he was the first president since the 1930s to skip the annual gathering."
Truman was the first president to address the NAACP. Truman took office in 1945.
Roosevelt was president until 1945 and never addressed the NAACP.
Therefore, Roosevelt was the first president since the 30's to skip the annual NAACP gathering.
Since Roosevelt was the first president since the 30's to skip the gathering, it is impossible for Bush to also be the first president since the 30's to skip the gathering
So, it is technically correct to say "the NAACP officials said blah" when the the NAACP officials did in fact say "blah." But, it is poor journalism to include a quote with an easily verifiable falsehood.
"The Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, a leading think tank on issues affecting African-Americans, released a poll Tuesday that found 18% of black Americans would vote for President Bush. That's twice the share of black votes Bush drew in 2000, though far lower than Kerry's 69%."
Perhaps - Blacks no longer their allegiance to an organization that refers to them as 'Colored People'
When told of a list of 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida, the election supervisor said:
"The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day."
Isn't it possible that someone wanted to send letters them letters asking them to vote for Bush?
Taking this to the next logical step - instead of taking in methane and oxygen, if they simply took in hydrogen and oxygen, the plant would output fresh clean water which could be used for drinking or irrigation.
I guess some scientists have difficulty thinking outside the box.
Although, water is toxic if breathed in large quantities and sometimes contains pirana, so my solution is not yet perfect.
Back to the drawing board.
>> They would consume methane and oxygen and
>> produce liquid carbon dioxide, which could be
>> sequestered underground.
I can believe that nuclear experts would be knowledgable about the components of a centrifuge, but where do they find nuclear experts who are also experts in the construction of small artillery rockets?
Seems a little fishy.
"But almost a year before, Ms. Rice's staff had been told that the government's foremost nuclear experts seriously doubted that the tubes were for nuclear weapons, according to four officials at the Central Intelligence Agency and two senior administration officials, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity. The experts, at the Energy Department, believed the tubes were likely intended for small artillery rockets."
You wonder why people are uncivil to you on the internet?
Perhaps they're being uncivil to your nonsensical words and not to you personally.
Someone noted that bloggers caught a respected major newschannel (sizty Minutes) in the act of presenting amateurly forged documents which CBS claimed come from an "unimpeachable source" and you replied that "the debacle didn't strike me as particularly useful to anyone."
What kind of civil reply do you expect to get to your nonsense post?
In a real world face-to-face situation, people will usually walk away from nonsense generators, while on the internet they don't.
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November 5, 2004 04:56 PM
Update: Palm Beach County has updated their numbers and added 91,802 absentee ballots and 1,041 provisional ballots. Note that the vote totals for president only increased by 1,543 votes. To view an archived copy of the previous report, click here. While Palm Beach County appears to have accounted for the discrepancy, this underscores the flaws in the system and data compilation.
You make a post on Slashdot - read my millions of nerds - on a thread about defective voting machines, saying that Diebold machines have told us that Bush won the election.
I post a clarification along with a link describing the actual manufacturer of the defective voting equipment and explain that these were not Diebold machines - and for this you call me an uppity right winger with no sense of humour?
Franklin is the only Ohio county to use Danaher Controls Inc.'s ELECTronic 1242, an older-style touchscreen voting system. Danaher did not immediately return a message for comment.
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, a glitch occurred with software designed for the city's new "ranked-choice voting," in which voters list their top three choices for municipal offices. If no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes outright, voters' second and third-place preferences are then distributed among candidates who weren't eliminated in the first round.
When the San Francisco Department of Elections tried a test run on Wednesday of the program that does the redistribution, some of the votes didn't get counted and skewed the results, director John Arntz said.
"All the information is there," Arntz said. "It's just not arriving the way it was supposed to."
A technician from the Omaha, Neb. company that designed the software, Election Systems & Software Inc., was working to diagnose and fix the problem.
Yesterday, they checked the non-removable memory banks in the voting machine and to 115 Bush votes.
Since the non-removable memory banks matched the removable cardridge, they used that as the offical Bush vote from the machine.
The other 2 machines had a total of 250 Bush votes.
Adding 250 to 115 gives 365 Bush votes total for the precinct.
Not "Politics for thinking people"
Some people believe that if someone hates you, and you can discover why they hate you, that surely you can come to some understanding.
So I asked a perfectly reasonable question of the thread parent of how the Jews and the Chinese could have prevented their aggressors from hating them.
It's hard for people to admit that there are irrational ideologies and hatred in the world. People like to believe that everything is logical and that the victims must have done something to incite the animosity towards themselves.
Or why didn't the Chinese try to understand the Japanese hatred of them during the same time period?
All that bloodshed that could have been spared if only the Jews and the Chinese had tried to be more understanding.
This means that the U.S. action is causing 100,000 less deaths per year than the UN sanctions were.
Kindof like the difference between the pain pulling a rotton tooth, or allowing it to stay in your jaw and ache.
You didn't actually say anything.
The data is for 2003 - not 2004.
You're claiming he stopped attending the senate in 2003 while campaigning for the Democrat primary?
Truman was the first president to address the NAACP. Truman took office in 1945.
Roosevelt was president until 1945 and never addressed the NAACP.
Therefore, Roosevelt was the first president since the 30's to skip the annual NAACP gathering.
Since Roosevelt was the first president since the 30's to skip the gathering, it is impossible for Bush to also be the first president since the 30's to skip the gathering
So, it is technically correct to say "the NAACP officials said blah" when the the NAACP officials did in fact say "blah." But, it is poor journalism to include a quote with an easily verifiable falsehood.
Perhaps - Blacks no longer their allegiance to an organization that refers to them as 'Colored People'
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/naIsn't it possible that someone wanted to send letters them letters asking them to vote for Bush?
Taking this to the next logical step - instead of taking in methane and oxygen, if they simply took in hydrogen and oxygen, the plant would output fresh clean water which could be used for drinking or irrigation.
I guess some scientists have difficulty thinking outside the box.
Although, water is toxic if breathed in large quantities and sometimes contains pirana, so my solution is not yet perfect.
Back to the drawing board.
>> They would consume methane and oxygen and >> produce liquid carbon dioxide, which could be >> sequestered underground.
Seems a little fishy.
Perhaps they're being uncivil to your nonsensical words and not to you personally.
Someone noted that bloggers caught a respected major newschannel (sizty Minutes) in the act of presenting amateurly forged documents which CBS claimed come from an "unimpeachable source" and you replied that "the debacle didn't strike me as particularly useful to anyone."
What kind of civil reply do you expect to get to your nonsense post?
In a real world face-to-face situation, people will usually walk away from nonsense generators, while on the internet they don't.