Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Ohio is continuing as the ‘poster child’ for how not to run elections. One presiding judge in a polling site in Lucas County, OH reported that at the end of election night the paper record was blank on the two busiest voting machines at one polling site. The rovers who came to close his precinct told him they hoped the votes were stored on the memory cards or in the machines themselves, but did not appear as concerned as Mr. Small. He said he left with no confidence that the votes from those machines were counted. And on the day following the election Blackwell told the press that the election was a complete success? Meanwhile the news from Georgia is unbelievable as it pertains to the VoterID issue. See the articles below for more on this story. …
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Has John Kerry won Ohio yet???
Are the citizens of Ohio concerned that their votes don’t count, and their state is a sham as far as democracy is concerned? Just wondering…
Do the citizens of Ohio care that they are at the mercy of the Republicans, and their votes don’t count?
Are the citizens of Ohio proud of their representative Schmidt, who was boo’ed off the floor of congress? Are they embarassed that they have a corrupt Jean Schmidt getting boo’ed off the floor, instead of Iraq War vet Hackett???
Do the citizens of Ohio care that they are the laughing stock of the United States with assholes like Schimidt getting in there representing them via GOP electronic voting machines? I’m beginning to think they don’t give a shit…
Ohio is the mini-me of a corrupt administration. They see the neoCon as a role model. Thus they have massive corruption in their state.
CoinGate is not chump change …
GWB #1
The exit polls say yes, the neoCons say no, the current polls say it all.
For the hoops citizens have to jump through to vote, lists, id,photo, don’t they have laws on what state employees have to do after the election. Just maybe if an election is compromised, it should be declared null and void.
After 2000, I thought the whole nation would be concerned about election issues. But 5 years later, while the groundswell seems to be growing, it’s amazing how many people seem to be content with such euphemisms as ‘you need to be smart enough to figure out a ballot to vote’, even though evidence seems to show that a thousand tricks are being used to make the hoops voters have to go through tricky enough to throw most people.
I guess it’s like so many things, most of us won’t get it until it happens to us. But that’s hard to know. How many of us know for sure that our vote was counted in this last election? Or that it ever gets counted? I voted absentee this last time, at city hall. I wanted there to be a paper record, which there was not, so far as I knew, on the voting machines where I typically voted. I froze a little when the guy at the door told us all that our sigs need to match in every detail with the registration card, as I recall, something I had filled out years ago.
I thought, "geez, isn’t it comforting to know that anyone who wants to throw out my ballot has at least one convenient excuse right there, as I’m sure my signature doesn’t exactly match every time I sign it". Like the lady in New York State whose mayoral vote was discarded because she signed her whole middle name in one instance and signed just the initial in another.