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voting shenanigans?
A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
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Re: voting shenanigans?
A Democrat plot in CT to help Lamont? Jeez, I thought only Republicans got accused of vote tampering and voter fraud.DMC_Freeride wrote:A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
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Re: voting shenanigans?
Tampering by anyone is inexcusable..Bubba wrote:A Democrat plot in CT to help Lamont? Jeez, I thought only Republicans got accused of vote tampering and voter fraud.DMC_Freeride wrote:A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
"I asked you nicely to be nice. " - ShitSki
Thats like Hitler asking someone to buy kosher.
And now I am put on the Troll list like Diss was..
Thats like Hitler asking someone to buy kosher.
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Re: voting shenanigans?
Yep....please tell folks like Howard Dean and Jesse Jackson that Republicans and Democrats are equal opportunity tamperers. Thank you.DMC_Freeride wrote:Tampering by anyone is inexcusable..Bubba wrote:A Democrat plot in CT to help Lamont? Jeez, I thought only Republicans got accused of vote tampering and voter fraud.DMC_Freeride wrote:A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
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Re: voting shenanigans?
Records get lost and machines break. I doubt anyone tampered with anything. And how would they know which person to remove from a voting list. I may be a registered Republican, but once again I held my nose and voted for JOE. Had someon managed to mess with it and keep my vote off, JOE might lose. OR, maybe I would have voted for NED, NOT!DMC_Freeride wrote:Tampering by anyone is inexcusable..Bubba wrote:A Democrat plot in CT to help Lamont? Jeez, I thought only Republicans got accused of vote tampering and voter fraud.DMC_Freeride wrote:A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
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Re: voting shenanigans?
I'll get right on that..Bubba wrote:Yep....please tell folks like Howard Dean and Jesse Jackson that Republicans and Democrats are equal opportunity tamperers. Thank you.DMC_Freeride wrote:Tampering by anyone is inexcusable..Bubba wrote:A Democrat plot in CT to help Lamont? Jeez, I thought only Republicans got accused of vote tampering and voter fraud.DMC_Freeride wrote:A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
"I asked you nicely to be nice. " - ShitSki
Thats like Hitler asking someone to buy kosher.
And now I am put on the Troll list like Diss was..
Thats like Hitler asking someone to buy kosher.
And now I am put on the Troll list like Diss was..
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Re: voting shenanigans?
I asked - he and is wife are independents..Dr. NO wrote:Records get lost and machines break. I doubt anyone tampered with anything. And how would they know which person to remove from a voting list. I may be a registered Republican, but once again I held my nose and voted for JOE. Had someon managed to mess with it and keep my vote off, JOE might lose. OR, maybe I would have voted for NED, NOT!DMC_Freeride wrote:Tampering by anyone is inexcusable..Bubba wrote:A Democrat plot in CT to help Lamont? Jeez, I thought only Republicans got accused of vote tampering and voter fraud.DMC_Freeride wrote:A friend of mine was trying to cast a vote for Liberman in CT this morning and the lever wouldn't work... All the other levers worked.. He told the cop - the cop told him to reset the vote use another machine.. They promtly closed it off...
His wife just went to the same polling place(shes been voting there since the 70's) and her name wasn't on the list...
I'm just pointing it out.. If enough of these stories emerge then maybe there's something to it..
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Voting shenanigans and just plain sloppiness have been with us for about 225 years now. Everyone should recognize that. Saving grace is that - allegedly - the expected rate of miscounts and fraud don't appear to materially affect most electoral outcomes.
(not sure that I believe that fwiw, but it does make a nice fairytale)
(not sure that I believe that fwiw, but it does make a nice fairytale)
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Clear cases of fraudulent victories:BigKahuna13 wrote:Voting shenanigans and just plain sloppiness have been with us for about 225 years now. Everyone should recognize that. Saving grace is that - allegedly - the expected rate of miscounts and fraud don't appear to materially affect most electoral outcomes.
(not sure that I believe that fwiw, but it does make a nice fairytale)
Lyndon Johnson's first Senate race.
JFK's win in Illinois in 1960, giving him the Presidency
Maybe?(depending on who you believe):
Dubya's 2000 win in Florida
Dubya's 2004 win in Ohio
Assorted Senate, House and lots of other races throughout our history have been decide or influenced by fraud and error. And this doesn't even speak to keeping blacks in the South from voting for almost 100 years following Reconstruction.
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I'm happy to announce that my vote was cast on the old lever machine in the Hunter Village Hall of Hunter NY...
After a brief conversation about the new streets and lights in town with the mayor (who had just voted) and a sigh of releif that my name was on the list.. I noded to the nice old man with all the WWII badges and closed the curtains..
I love the small town voting thing.. Now it's time to sit back and watch..
After a brief conversation about the new streets and lights in town with the mayor (who had just voted) and a sigh of releif that my name was on the list.. I noded to the nice old man with all the WWII badges and closed the curtains..
I love the small town voting thing.. Now it's time to sit back and watch..
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LOL...I went to the Killington Town Offices, paid my November property tax installment just to get myself in the right mood, then went to vote. Your name is checked against a list of registered voters after which you're then given a card where you black out a circle next to the name of the person you want to vote for (kind of like an SAT test) and you then put your card into an electronic reader. You give another person your name on the way out and they check your name once again. The system works.
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. . . and here, in our little country town in MA, it is the sameBubba wrote:LOL...I went to the Killington Town Offices, paid my November property tax installment just to get myself in the right mood, then went to vote. Your name is checked against a list of registered voters after which you're then given a card where you black out a circle next to the name of the person you want to vote for (kind of like an SAT test) and you then put your card into an electronic reader. You give another person your name on the way out and they check your name once again. The system works.