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2007-03-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dem candidates are defini getting more exposure than Repubs via the MSM - IMO, 2007-Summer 2008 for Dems = RACE TO BE VEEP.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-03-30 00:46|| 2007-03-30 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Flying spaghetti monster for Pres'08!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-03-30 09:49|| 2007-03-30 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 skewed polls are just that : polls.... nothing more, you can use them to delude yourselves all you like, it makes no difference. The elections in this country are all electronic with no checks, so of course the republicans will win, by small margins spread out across the board, cant have another Florida fiasco, almost got caught, '04 was better but they still saw through Illinois, this election will be perfect... no suspicions will be raised as they've had 2 elections to hone their craft.

Posted by Wholuck Henbane4439 2007-03-30 10:41|| 2007-03-30 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 And why have many voting machines gone electronic? Because illiterate and Alzheimer's ridden voters (whom the Democrats claim as their very own) can't be bothered to properly fill out paper ballots. In the same breath, the very same Democrats worked tirelessly to throw out properly filled military ballots.

The Democrats also knew about the sordid saga of Hugo Chavez stealing elections with rigged electronic voting machines, yet they pushed for just such a system. Perhaps they were hoping to duplicate El Gordo's success?

Posted by ed 2007-03-30 11:04|| 2007-03-30 11:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Hillary loses to FRED THOMPSON!

Posted by Vortigern Glinetle3602 2007-03-30 14:44|| 2007-03-30 14:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Wholuck Henbane4439, you must be joking. Don't you remember the hanging chad? Oh, the humanity!!! Frickin' morons. It's like the ballot is a mini IQ test and if you can't figure it out your vote doesn't count because you are too frickin' STOOOOPPPPIIDDD!!!! Yeah, and I bet you think Chicago in 1960 was all on the up and up too.

The problem isn't mechanical or electronic, it's mental. There are just too many loonie liberals is all.

Posted by Elmereter Hupash6222 2007-03-30 15:32|| 2007-03-30 15:32|| Front Page Top

#7 On the electronic voting issue: I don't have much good to say about Massachusetts, but the voting system here (at least in the town where I vote) is the best I've ever seen. The ballot is clearly written on paper with each option next to an incomplete arrow. Using a marker pen you simply connect the arrows next to your choices then you insert the ballot into a scanner that reads your votes and drops your ballot into a secure container.

It seems to be the best of both worlds: you get instant electronic tabulation with a hard copy of the actual ballot in case of recount, and the technology is not that sophisticated. I'd like to see more places adopt it.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-03-30 16:12|| 2007-03-30 16:12|| Front Page Top

#8 It always cracked me up that in Florida they can can track ten Bingo cards at the same time or figure out four quinellas on the same dog race, but they couldn't figure out how to punch a hole in a piece of paper next to a name.

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-30 16:22|| 2007-03-30 16:22|| Front Page Top

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