Well. This is certainly one way to ensure the “correct” electoral outcome…
Meh. Probably nothing. And clearly not worth pursuing, even if it turns out to be something.
Get in the back, racists.
(h/t Matt; via Drudge)
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Oh it’s going to be ugly.
Sims got Gregoire elected in Washington State and then got tapped by Obama to go to Washington D.C. One big circle jerk.
I would say they can’t cheat if it is not close–but in Nevada they are being creative.
As Stalin said, it is not who votes that counts, it is who counts the votes.
Electronic voting machines must be carefully controlled and used for narrowly-tailored purposes (people with certain handicaps).
Voting should be done the way we do it in Kansas City, KS. We replaced our clunky mechanical machines with optical-scan (fill in the oval with a Sharpie) ballots. This allows many people to vote at once, separated by privacy screens. The voter is given a cardboard sleeve with which to cover the ballot while taking it from the privacy screen to the optical scan machine. It can catch and reject overvotes, allowing the ballot to be “spoiled” and replaced with a fresh ballot. If the optical scan machine is offline, the election workers could fall back to having the voters simply drop the paper ballot into a locked box, which can then be transported back to election HQ under supervision of at least one person from each party.
With no hanging/pregnant/dimpled chads, there’s no reason why a re-run of the same ballots shouldn’t give the same result every time, even if scanned on a different machine. Also, each party should be allowed, after the preliminary results are announced, to choose precincts for manual audit to prove that the totals there match what the machine said. If that audit discloses any meaningful deviation, then additional precincts would be audited (making it impossible for the machines to be somehow programmed to lie about the totals, since one couldn’t know ahead of time which ones would be chosen for audit.)
We have those optical scan machines in Minnesota. I agree that those are the best way to go, because you have all the benefits of automated counts and instant verification, while still having hard copies of the votes. Which is what you said, of course.
Still, we had those votes “found” in the trunk of a car that helped push Al Franken over the edge. Hey, how about everyone has to show an ID, and that is recorded somewhere saying you voted? And then, we could match the number of people who voted with the total number of ballots. It wouldn’t eliminate the outright fraud of just disposing of some ballots and replacing them with others, but that would be a rare event, I think, because we still have the scanning machine doing the counting most of the time.
If a person cannot get it together enough to get themselves an ID card, or keep their address current, then maybe that’s not a bad way to filter them out.
Hey Monster, I’ve voted absentee for KS3 (Johnson County). Is this House race even close? RCP says trending R, but I haven’t seen poll data, ever.
Hmmm… the voting in NV is “glitched” to favor the Dem. The “erroneous” ballot instructions for the ovals in New York favor the Dem, including military ballots sent out “too late”.
How is it that all these “snafus” always seem to favor the Dems?
Something the Dems might want to remember before their bitching and moaning about others engaging in the behavior they all too often rely on succeeds in completely and utterly corrupting the electoral system:
There’s no cheating when you count with bullets.
I’m worried enough about the vote that I’m not going to send in my absentee vote, but vote in person this year. On election day.
I really really don’t like this “early voting” stuff.
Couple days rest, they’ll be fine.
One thing the early voting seems to do in this case though: bring to light potential cheating. Right or won’t such revelations matter?
Another George Soros joint: The Secretary of State Project
Here’s another “no good deed (done by non-leftists) goes unpunished*“
When Pelosi said opposition to Obama must be investigated, Holder was listening.
I really really don’t like this “early voting” stuff.
I hate it, because all it does is encourage cheating/vote rigging/ballot stuffing etc.
won’t such revelations matter?
I think the answer to that depends on how they’re percieved: as revelations or “revelations” (i.e. whether or not it’s actual election stealing or a cynical attempt to rally late support or delegitimize a victorious opponent).
I’m not joking about the ballots or bullets thing. If we allow the electoral process to be delegitimized to a great enough extent, and we will literally no longer be a Republic of Law.
That’s why Richard Nixon v.1960 was a better man than Al Gore.
Just as Richard Nixon v.1974 was a better man the Bill Clinton.
Vote the easy way.
Well, this early voter will be making his ballot choices today… heh.
More voting machines behaving badly … and again, to the advantage of the Dems.
Amazing Darleen. And people have been telling me since 2004 that those whacky machines hated Democrats!
remember kids, propaganda whore Viv Schiller’s National Soros Radio says: Fighting voter fraud is intimidating and discouraging!
President Obama is a great communicator. And I do mean that.
Soap Box, Jury Box, Ballot Box, Cartridge Box….
The trick is learning how to listen and let yourself hear, reading between the lines as it were.
Heh. The last paragraph of hf’s linked article is beautiful:
Shackelford says True the Vote has no intention of violating the law. Weiser, of the Brennan Center, says her group and others will be watching the poll watchers closely just to be sure.
Evidently, efforts to watch the polls are intimidating and bad, but efforts to watch the watchers are legitimate and good.
Do none of these people realize just how stupid and hypocritical they sound when they open their mouths?
Do none of these people realize just how stupid and hypocritical they sound when they open their mouths?
Is that a trick question?
Silver Whistle, the peculiar demographics of KS-3 are such that the October Surprise revelation that Yoder refused a preliminary breath test (after he’d passed other field sobriety tests) last year might put him in trouble.
The idea that we get more Moore just makes me sick.
Turns out the voting machines are serviced by members of SEIU.
Crazy, isn’t it?
Jeff, just one more reason to abolish public-employee unions.
If this keeps up, we’re going to need UN election observers. God damn, I hate Democrats.
Ah, the Illinois Way…
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=7747590
If this keeps up, we’re going to need UN election observers.
Don’t bother. Jimmy Carter already gave it a thumbs-up.