I’m 61 years old. I’ve been doing this work full-time for nearly the last five years. I long for the days, before I learned so much, when I was ignorant about dirty tricks, phony voter fraud accusations, voter list purges, voter suppression, poorly designed and inaccurate voting machines, absentee paper ballots that have the voters' political parties on the mail-in envelopes (Yes, Broward Co, Florida, does that and strips privacy away from the voters and state law allows them to do it), long lines at the polls, and every other attempt to keep voters from voting and votes from being counted accurately, if at all.

It was kinda nice not knowing about all of those issues. Oh, maybe someone would bring up the old story about ballot boxes floating in the bay. What bay was that? San Francisco? Lake Michigan off of Chicago? The Hudson River? The location seems to have changed with the person telling the story.

It was nice thinking our democracy actually worked the way our founding fathers envisioned it would. It was nice thinking that, no matter for whom I voted, the majority voice was heard. Now, it just feels dirty and somewhat depressing.

I know way too much. It was nice being ignorant...

• National: US Election: Malfunctioning voting machines
  http://senderodelpeje.co...ntenido/2008/10/09/52930
• National: Update from Black Box Voting: Trouble with straight party voting and how you can help on Election Day
  http://www.independentpo...an-help-on-election-day/
• National: Investors agree to sell Hart InterCivic to management team
  http://www.bizjournals.c...aily48.html?ana=from_rss
• National: ACLU: Justice Department Should Enforce Voting Law
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0810/S00217.htm
• National: College students face barriers to voting
  Registration problems, ID requirements, long lines at polls cited as discouraging factors.
  http://www.detnews.com/a...010/POLITICS01/810100312
• National: Clearing Up The Issue Of Provisional Ballots
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00163.htm
• National: Voter Purges Could Cause Florida-like Presidential Recounts
  http://www.alternet.org/...e_presidential_recounts/
• National: Election 08: The Difficulty Stealing It This Time
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0810/S00164.htm
• National: Professor examines voting misconceptions
  http://spectrum.buffalo.edu/article.php?id=37421
• National: Our Hackable Democracy
  http://www.forbes.com/te...rity_cx_ag_1010hack.html
• National: Report: Voter Purging Process Is Shrouded in Secrecy, Prone to Error and Vulnerable to Manipulation
  http://i3.democracynow.o...ging_process_is_shrouded
• National: Voter Fraud, Voter Suppression
  http://blogs.abcnews.com.../10/voter-fraud-vot.html
• National: Questions and Challenges Surround Voter Registration Process
  http://www.findingdulcin...egistration-Process.html
• National: Briefing: Bracing for another Election Day mess
  http://www.theweek.com/a...nother_Election_Day_mess
• National: Opinion - Who’s the Fraud?
  http://opinionator.blogs...s-the-fraud/?ref=opinion
• National: Voter Registrations Spark Testy Exchange
  http://blogs.wsj.com/was...ange/?mod=googlenews_wsj
• AZ: Pima County - Pima officials: More than 350 residents tried to vote twice in primary
  http://www.tucsoncitizen...om/daily/local/99161.php
• CA: Los Angeles County - Surge in voter registration highlights electoral fraud
  http://www.malibutimes.c...008/10/10/news/news6.txt
• CA: San Joaquin, Sacramento counties expect record voter turnout
  http://www.lodinews.com/...ws/4_election_081010.txt
• CO: State disputes voter purge
  http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10682767
• CO: Colorado to Review How It Purges Voters’ Names
  http://www.nytimes.com/2...;ref=us&oref=slogin
• CO: Coffman disputes voter-purge report
  http://www.chieftain.com...ef14d420898206871936.txt
• CO: No vote for you: Coffman responds to NYT voter purge story
  http://coloradoindepende...to-nyt-voter-purge-story
• CO: Clerks to voters: Bring a sack lunch to the polls
  http://coloradoindepende...-sack-lunch-to-the-polls
• CO: El Paso County - State Senator Accuses Clerk of Suppressing Votes
  http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9155567
• CO: Moffat County - Test election extended to today
  Public participants not worried about errors
  http://www.craigdailypre...election_extended_today/
• FL: Few reliable voting machines in Florida
  http://www.heise.de/engl...h/newsticker/news/117183
• FL: Lee County - Florida unprepared for Election Day?
  http://www.nbc-2.com/art...articleid=22117&z=3
• FL: Palm Beach County - Wennet won't challenge voting machines
  http://www.palmbeachpost.../10/09/1009merriman.html
• FL: Palm Beach County - Training intensifies for 8,000 poll workers
  http://www.palmbeachpost...a_poll_workers_1010.html
• GA: Lawsuit: Georgia Illegally Purges Votes
  Complaint Claims Voters Being Dropped From Registration Rolls Because Of Challenges To Citizenship
  http://www.cbsnews.com/s...igates/main4512526.shtml
• GA: Fulton County judge denies voter ID challenge
  http://www.fortmilltimes...om/124/story/319963.html
• HI: Maui County - Rise of the machines
  As election technology blazes ahead, will voters get left behind?
  http://www.mauitime.com/...ise_of_the_machines.html
• IL: With Misleading Report On ACORN, CNN Misses The Real Story In Lake Co.
  http://progressillinois....ying-acorn-without-facts
• IN: Opinion - Home foreclosures shouldn’t keep registered voters from polls
  WE SAY Blocking those caught by economic distress would be a blatant act of voter suppression against the poor
  http://www.idsnews.com/n...?id=63456&comview=1
• IN: As voter registration rises, so do fears of fraud
  Claims include potential for ineligible voters, disenfranchisement
  http://www.indystar.com/...81009/NEWS0502/810090575
• MO: Are we ready for Nov. 4?
  http://www.stltoday.com/.../are-we-ready-for-nov-4/
• MT: GOP voter challenges got our attention
  http://www.helenair.com/...ns/top/irview_081009.txt
• MT: Montana Democrats to drop voter challenge lawsuit
  http://www.greatfallstri...010/NEWS01/81010012/1002
• NC: Times story on voter databases called 'very misleading'
  http://www.news-record.c...s_called_very_misleading
• NC: State defends database use for IDs
  http://www.news-record.c...nds_database_use_for_ids
• NC: N.C. to change the way it vets its new voters
  http://www.newsobserver....m/110/story/1249665.html
• NH: Dual check-in system draws complaint
  http://www.cabinet.com/a...1010/BEDFORD01/810109922
• NY: Making Our Votes Really Count
  http://www.brooklynrail....s/making-our-votes-count
• NY: Barack 'Osama' on Rensselaer County ballots
  http://timesunion.com/As...story.asp?storyID=728326
• OH: The Right Stuff: Brunner enables, rather than investigates fraud
  http://www.thepost.ohiou...olumns/2008/10/10/25805/
• OH: Mahoning County - County forestalls ballot tampering
  http://www.vindy.com/new...stalls-ballot-tampering/
• SC: Beaufort County - Voter office performance must be better for Nov. 4
  http://www.beaufortgazet...inions/story/580621.html
• TX: The hurricane vote
  For storm-dispersed residents of the Texas coast, voting early makes good sense.
  http://www.chron.com/dis...l/editorial/6049924.html
• TX: Waller County - Texas County Agrees to Stop Vote Suppression Efforts Against Black University Students
  http://www.campaignlegal...nter.org/press-3407.html
• VA: Is Va. ready for heavy turnout?
  Rights group says state is ill-prepared to handle voters
  http://www.inrich.com/cv...RTD-2008-10-10-0134.html
• VA: Arlington County, Va. Ramps up for Election Day
  http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/420766
• WI: GOP asks judge to make some show ID at polls
  http://blogs.jsonline.co...me-show-id-at-polls.aspx
• Washington DC: E-Voting Machine Produces Out-Of-Whack Result. D'oh!!!
  http://www.huffingtonpos...e-produces_b_133339.html

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