cavanami Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 ...not only the people in Florida but the troops in Iraq, many of their votes didn't count...HUGE mess! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 The good people of FL had their votes stolen. And nobody gave a damn. Cheers, SD Plenty of folks had their votes stolen - by both parties. It was just in Florida that it made a difference. As I recall, some counties in Florida were trying to reject the military absentee vote, since they figured it would tend to be more Republican. I have a friend who grew up in an heavily Irish-American part of Pennsylvania. His father was deeply involved in Democratic politics. He told me he came home from work one election day and said he'd better go vote before the polls closed. His father said, "Sit down. You've already voted." My own father was an election official after he retired. He kept his precinct honest, but told me he wasn't so sure about some of the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allistar Posted May 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 Sorry about not having a link. I had heard it on National Public Radio going to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted May 14, 2009 Report Share Posted May 14, 2009 Sometimes I wonder if any of the votes are counted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted May 15, 2009 Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 I've read that election officials pray for a landslide. A close election exposes the problems in the voting process. 2000 just exposed what was already known. Also, the manner one votes is not uniform across the country. Some systems are much better than others. There will ALWAYS be a discrepency and there will ALWAYS be votes that didn't get counted. 99% of the time it won't make a difference. Principle is another matter entirely. Military votes are counted arbitrarily depending on the state and county. One could be on the same carrier with another person and 'vote' on board at the same exact time and in the same manner and being from two different states one person's vote will be counted and another's won't. Sometimes due to different rules. Some states or counties is when it was post marked or approved by senior officer that its valid or whatever. In presidential elections each state determines the means and manner in which their citizens vote and within a state sometimes by county with different counties using different means. The only uniformity constitutionally is that all states accept votes on the same day. Fraud is harder now than it was in previous decades. Back then there was a lot of hand counting of ballots and in some cities and rural areas it was tightly controlled by one person or a few people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted May 15, 2009 Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 http://www.stealingamericathemovie.org/ This video showed how easy it was to hack in and change the count of the votes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 15, 2009 Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 The biggest scandal right now is in Minnesota. The votes were counted and the Republican won. An automatic recount and the Republican still won. But the Dems kept at it, demanding recounts under different rules until the Democrat finally pulled ahead. Now the Dems are insisting that's it and Franken must be seated as senator. The only honest solution is a new election. That's not going to happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted May 15, 2009 Report Share Posted May 15, 2009 Hmmm, that's an interesting way of looking at it. Certainly a different take than the local MN papers have (who both supported Coleman, BTW). Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiHome Posted May 17, 2009 Report Share Posted May 17, 2009 Census numbers are a joke. They could give us a number, the same people could do another count and be way off from the first number. Anyway, I found this link. It's from a tv station but the story is from the AP. Link The article does not say the votes were not counted. The article talks about the difficulty in getting a legal absentee ballot in. The main data point being how many absentee ballots were requested versus how many legal ones were received back. That is not the same as not counting a ballot. Typical journalism in this day and age. TH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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