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   Phil said on 1/29/2008 @ 10:09pm PT: [Permalink]

   Can you imagine a pub full of Irish with a “liberty” electronic vote tabulation device?

   No wonder they are stored in a warehouse! Although the Irish might be up for a fair fight, they’re not up for another civil war.

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   Floridiot said on 1/30/2008 @ 3:00am PT: [Permalink]

   John, I wonder if this dood has been reading Bradblog, he has the same concerns as we do about central tabulation vs precinct based and about the chain of custody. Your ‘IN’ link

   Tom John, the county GOP chairman, said White’s office should be able to turn around programming on the machines in the seven-week period between elections, given that states such as Virginia and Ohio took less than 40 days for a similar task.
   “She’s putting at risk the rights of thousands of voters,” John said. “There’s a period of time when we won’t know where the votes are between them leaving the voter and arriving at the counting machine.”

   hmmm

   Do you think Paris Hilton kos wonders about this? 😛

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   Agent 99 said on 1/30/2008 @ 3:36am PT: [Permalink]

   Well, flo, dear, I’m not defending him, but…. Maybe we should dig a little harder.

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   Dredd said on 1/30/2008 @ 5:43am PT: [Permalink]

   On a vote of a different sort (since I already outed kos here at Bradblog), the House and Senate passed a bill forbidding permanent military bases in Iraq. The preznit blush gang-signed it.

   So does McCain interpret “permanent” to mean 99.9 years or 999,999 years? He said there would be more wars and we would be in Iraq for 100 or 1,000,000 years.

   Did he vote for the law, or is he going to call all military bases “temporary” no matter what?

   How did he vote … to ridicule the word “permanent” … or did congress ridicule Americans by using a meaningless word?

   Were you fooled by the VOTE … was it another exercise to give new meaning to VOTE FRAUD?

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   Floridiot said on 1/30/2008 @ 8:13am PT: [Permalink]

   Damn Conspiracy theorists 😉

   John said “unscrupulous people” could remove or add votes, and there would be no “audit trail” to check against the votes recorded at the close of the polls.
   He also objected to a plan to keep disabled-access voter machines in storage and make them available upon request. He said doing so would not comply with federal law.
   Aaron Haith, the attorney for Democrats on the City-County Council who said he attended Monday’s meeting as a private citizen, expressed concerns about whether all the votes would be counted.
   For instance, if the seal on an envelope were to break while it’s being transported, election officials weren’t certain whether the votes would be thrown out.

   he-he, that was more of our John’s ‘IN’ link above

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   Dredd said on 1/30/2008 @ 8:49am PT: [Permalink]

   On another voting front, Democratic Senators StinkyMer (a.k.a. shumer) and FineStain (a.k.a. feinstein) voted to confirm AG Mukasey.

   Their boy Muckycase now refuses to say waterboarding is illegal:

   Attorney General Michael Mukasey still won’t say whether waterboarding is torture, a stance that is upsetting Senate Democrats who had threatened to derail his confirmation over the issue.

   (AP). Heckuva job there Stinky and Stain, I am sure Muckycase will do you right.

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   kharma said on 1/30/2008 @ 9:07am PT: [Permalink]

   Check out Broward County Supervisor of Elections. 109% voter turnout. 930 registered voters, 1020 ballots cast.

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   Dredd said on 1/30/2008 @ 9:31am PT: [Permalink]

   Kharma #7

   The sky’s the limit baby 😉 if you have the faith.

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   Dredd said on 1/30/2008 @ 9:44am PT: [Permalink]

   Remember to get out and VOTE on a very important topic at the one and only kos deep blog:

   Poll

   Have you gotten a cold this winter?

   Yes—bad
   28% 1363 votes

   Yes—mild
   29% 1425 votes

   No
   42% 2074 votes

   | 4862 votes | Vote | Results

   (Dkos Deep). Oh how that kossy knows polls and polling so well … Goober is proud 😉 of lil’ kos fer doin’ a heckuva job.

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    the zapkitty said on 1/30/2008 @ 10:55am PT: [Permalink]

    Off-topic FISA update…

    Rumors this morning that Senate Majority -something-or-the-other Reid had struck a deal with Minority Leader McConnel on FISA… D.C. phone lines must have exploded because a prompt statement was released by Reid’s office saying that no actual deal had been reached and intimating that Senators Dodd and Feingold are in the loop regarding the discussions.

    Funny… you’d think people didn’t trust Harry Reid for some reason…

    Leaving aside the no-brainer issue of telco immunity (i.e. Bush and company immunity) there are other issues in the debate over the proposed FISA amenments.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee version of the bill expanded on the old but still valid FISA law in ways that at least paid some attention to American civil liberties… but the Bush-approved Senate Intelligence Committee version of the bill essentially makes the atrocious-but-temporary Protect America Act the permanent FISA law.

    And that’s why when Reid chose to make the Senate Intelligence Committee version the base bill for the debate he deliberately made it an uphill battle against despotism.

    And now the bill must be amended to resemble the Judiciary Committee version… and Russ Feingold explains why in 30 seconds:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDlYcn5HEs8

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    Bluebear2 said on 1/30/2008 @ 1:58pm PT: [Permalink]

    109% voter turnout.

    It really stands out when the majority of the other precincts were in the mid-30% to mid-40% range.