LAS VEGAS -- Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines.
Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid's name was already checked.
Ferrara said she wasn't alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.
"Something's not right," Ferrara said. "One person that's a fluke. Two, that's strange. But several within a five minute period of time -- that's wrong."
Clark County Registrar of Voters Larry Lomax said there is no voter fraud, although the issues do come up because the touch-screens are sensitive. For that reason, a person may not want to have their fingers linger too long on the screen after they make a selection at any time. I call bullshit. Once - a fluke, Twice - Coincidence, More than that (within 5 minutes) - intentional.
And isn't it simply amazing how Angle's name doesn't ever get magically marked? ITS A SIGN FROM ALLAN!
"Especially in a community with elderly citizens (they have) difficulty in (casting their) ballot," Lomax said. "Team leaders said there were complaints (and the) race filled in."
At any time, voters can go back on the screen and review their selections. They are also allowed to make changes and encouraged to double-check their ballot on screen and on paper before it is cast. That is if they happen to notice. Looks like Joyce - and a number of others (too many for coincidence) did notice.
Voters seem to be paying attention this time around.
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paying attention to what end? We are seeing massive voter fraud all over the country and military disenfranchisement and... and.. so what? What is going to be done about it? Absolutely squat! That's what. The military brass won't act. The FBI seeming does nothing but make jokes about mafia influence in elections.
It almost seems the Iraqis have a better chance of democracy than we do. I suppose we can put our future hope in that.
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This problem will not be resolved by the FBI or the military. I can say no more.
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The biggest threat to our democracy is now the Democrat party, as controlled by the Union bosses and so-called "Liberal Elites".
And if you are a Democrat, you should get out - there is guilt by association. Your support of that party is supporting the most corrupt big political party in the US - one that is attacking the very foundations of our nation by perverting the voting process directly and by proxy (ACORN for example).
The cleanup of the GOP is under way by the TEA Party people - when will you Democrats clean up?
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People are bloody furious over this, I don't know if you've read the comments on some of these stories but they seem to be running about 50% saying time to lock and load.
It's not quite that time and I'm still hoping we don't reach that point. I do think states should pass laws making voter fraud fall under treason statutes with big hefty fines and mandatory long jail sentences. Because voter fraud is treason. People act like it's not such a big deal but it's designed to undermine our country. How can it not be treason?
I went and did early voting and didn't see any problems on our machines though.
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The left is anti-democratic. Why let the little people decide something so important as who their rulers should be? So it makes perfect sense that they would not respect democratic institutions -- like the vote. There is no mystery why all the fraud seems to benefit Democrats.
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In order to obtain a conviction for voter fraud the prosecution must prove intent. This requirement provides cover for the reluctant prosecutors and discourages the dedicated from pursuing criminal charges.
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i>"What is going to be done about it? Absolutely squat! That's what."Don't know what all the fuss is about. These individuals are breaking laws. Charge them by the book, make a citizens arrest and bring them to Comanche or, the badlands land of Arizona they've created or the wilds of Alaska and they will be held in a secure location until a government in DC that honors US laws is re-established. Then and only then will they see the opportunity for a fair trial. Comanche is where I prefer, so I can bless them with me and my compadre's fine company.
Jury Box - up to Holder, and the courts who struck down the requirement to show citizenship when registering to vote...
That leaves the cartridge box.
I hope the ballot box works this time out, in spite of the rampant Dem fraud, because we damned sure cannot depend on the Jury box any more, and neither party seems inclined to listen to the soap box.
Yet another piece of bad news for Democrats, one week before Election Day: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada finds [Republican Sharron] Angle with 49% support to [Democrat Harry] Reid's 45%. Four percent (4%) like some other candidate in the race, and two percent (2%) remain undecided with one week until Election Day.
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so 20% of the voting machines are fixed... problem solved Reid wins the Chicago way.
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I agree, Reid will win and other close races will go democratic. I think we should take a lesson from Iraq and use the dye on the finger, preferably the middle finger.
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The dye on the finger doesn't work if
a) the machine changes your vote choices to the default setting, or
b) you arrive at the polling place to find you've already voted, or
c) so many imaginary-Americans have voted that your vote is cancelled, as are a majority of those who voted for anyone other than the Democrats.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] The curtain is all but certain to drop on President Barack B.O. Obama's era of transformative reforms, even if Republicans fall short of their dreams of a mid-term election landslide next week.
Mr Obama, elected on a heady wave of hope and change in 2008, compiled a historic resume of domestic legislative triumphs, overhauling health care and Wall Street and pumping billions of dollars into the crisis-strangled economy.
He succeeded by uniting his Democratic Party and adding several moderate Republicans to pass bills over the objection of their leaders. But such tactics will become obsolete in the new Washington that emerges after November 2 polls.
Even if Republicans do not pull off a seizure of the House of Representatives and trim the Democratic edge in the Senate, as most analysts expect, Obama is sure to see his room for manoeuvre curtailed.
History, and the dynamics of power in Washington, suggest Mr Obama's political capital will be depleted after a mid-term rebuke from voters, with a testing run-up to his 2012 reelection bid in prospect.
"One way or another, next week's elections are going to deliver a humbling blow to the Democrats," said Mr Costas Panagopoulos, editor of Campaigns and Elections magazine. "If they refuse to be humbled, they will pay a price at future elections," added Panagopoulos, a Fordham University professor.
Polls predict a Republican House that would thwart Mr Obama on major legislation. Even if Democrats cling on, their wafer-thin majority would leave the balance of power with conservative members of their caucus.
A more evenly divided Senate meanwhile portends gridlock. Mr Obama appears to have two choices.
He could confront Republicans and pin them with the blame for an era of political conflict at the next presidential election in 2012.
Or, the president could coax Republicans toward areas of compromise and mutual interest -- though any resulting legislation is likely to be far less consequential than his earlier triumphs.
During the 2008 campaign, Mr Obama raised eyebrows when he said that unlike former Democratic president Bill Clinton, Republican Ronald Reagan had changed the "trajectory" of American politics. But many observers now feel Mr Obama must borrow the playbook of compromise, domination of the center ground and savvy positioning that landed Clinton a second term after his party was hammered in 1994 mid-term polls.
"Is Obama willing to settle for a number of small, incremental measures that add up to something successful?" asked University of Arkansas professor Andrew Dowdle, voicing a key question of the next two years.
Some analysts say that education, deficit reduction, stalled foreign free trade deals and energy reform offer prospects for compromise if both parties feel an obligation to show voters they can work together. But efforts on global warming and general amnesty appear to be out -- unless Obama can launch a new era of reform with a second term mandate after 2012.
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Legislative triumphs?!? He dont need no steenkin' legislative branch. Havent you peasants heard about a little thing called Executive Order?
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"Sun sets..." > Yookay, I'll bite, I thought SPACEWEATHER, NET said the new Sunspot had exploded + was facing towards Earth, which may explain why Guam-WESTPAC has been ESPEC SUNNY/BRIGHT than usual since yesterday???
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Today I got a forwarded E-mail from my daughter, it shows real mugshots of 8 blacks and 2 whites ALL WEARING OBAMA LOGOS AND OBAMA SHIRTS and asking he question, Have you EVER seen a mugshot of anybody wearing Bush, Reagan,tee shirts?
Ummm No I havent.
I fORWARDED it to Fred, I hope he decides to publish it.
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See also FREEREPUBLIC > IRAN TV: OBAMA UNLIKELY TO LAST HIS FIRST TERM.
HMMMMM, HMMMMM, wid IRAN going Nuclear, + MILTERRS both going Nuclear + expanding the GLOBAL JIHAD including calls for Jihad + Terrstrikes agz the US, POTUS BAMMER MAY BE LUCKY JUST TO AVOID A SHOE BEING THROWN AT HIM LIKE DUBYA
SHOE + AL BUNDY'S INFAMOUS SOCKS = EQUIVALENT OF "IED/CAR BOMB" FOR FUTURE AMERICAN MILTERRS = JIHADISTS???
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Currently, two-thirds of Americans (67%) have a negative opinion of the job President Obama is doing while just over one-third (37%) have a positive opinion.
67+37=104. Are they using the same polling techniques as in Harris County?
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Perhaps its that high because he is out campaigning for the last couple weeks instead of making (the few) decisions in DC. Bet it would raise higher if he'd take the fam on a jaunt to the caribbean for Mickey Mouse Jerked Chicken and a round golf a day.
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Really...does he care? no matter how low the numbers go, he is still El Presidente. He still gets to push crap down our throats. We're all peasants anyway and this just re-inforces his high opinion of himself. He also does not care about the rank and file Dems that threw themselves on his "Altar of Obedience" legislation...Merely cannon fodder for his statist ways. His mantra, "I don't care if they hate us as long as they fear us.."
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The 37% is the Marxist core of the left with some loony people that think everything can be solved by holding hands and singing Kumbiah and the eco-weenies.
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as a lot of polls continue to show a lot of obambi's support coming from the african-american community I would imagine 1/4 to 1/3 of that 37% number are blacks. The others are your normal hodge-podge of academic loons and lib-tard east/west coasters.
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