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(Wall Street Journal)   November 7: Election Day. November 8: Litigation Day   (opinionjournal.com) divider line
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695 clicks; posted to Politics » on 23 Oct 2006 at 1:41 PM (16 years ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Ant
2006-10-23 12:40:54 PM  
So this is how elections are going to be from now on? That's pretty farking sad.
 
2006-10-23 12:43:33 PM  
no, only if republicans win. if the dem wins no prob with those voting machines at all
 
2006-10-23 1:47:15 PM  
foster404: no, only if republicans win. if the dem wins no prob with those voting machines at all

No, the machines are still rigged, they just weren't rigged enough to give the republican the win, so no harm no foul.
 
2006-10-23 1:47:16 PM  
Wasn't everyone predicting litigation was going to occur after the 2004 presidential election? Kerry certainly had us fooled.
 
2006-10-23 1:50:16 PM  
"We could see either party pursue the kind of lawsuits that Al Gore unleashed in Florida in 2000".

....aaaaaand stopped reading there. Should have stopped when I saw the WSJ.com logo.

Jesus, how can a paper with such a good new division have such a batshiat-looney editorial division?
 
2006-10-23 1:52:37 PM  
so, what? should i not vote? should i just throw my hands up and scream to high heaven to install a dictator appointed with the most auspicious of methods to secure 'murrica's borders and quell those silly, undereducated masses with simplistic sound-bites and undeveloped war-plans?

oh, wait.

almost there, eh PNAC?

/farkers.
 
2006-10-23 2:08:30 PM  
this just in.. Due to the overwhelming expected voter turnout a new voting schedule has been announced nationwide.
Republicans vote: Tuesday November 8
Democrats vote: Wednesday Novembe 9
Undecideds vote: Thursday November 10

Please make a note and pass this along to avoid confusion in your precincts.

/yeah, I know..
 
2006-10-23 2:25:46 PM  
If the exit polls do not match the vote tallies within the margin of error, then it is a rigged vote. It's kinda how we make sure vote fraud isn't going on in 3rd-world elections. I'm looking forward to see if the discpepancies of '04 are found again.

I bet they are and again no one will give a rat's ass. Oh well, America deserves the government it gets.

/Bush in '08!
 
2006-10-23 2:36:27 PM  
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2006-10-23 2:36:55 PM  
I hereby declare that, henceforth, all election results shall be decided by me. The Decider.
 
2006-10-23 2:40:05 PM  
I don't have any faith in exit polls anymore. Any time you have people deciding and asking people if they want to participate in an exit poll you have the capability for manipulation. Also any time you have an elected body being the final say-so in the election that puts them into power you have created a back asswards way of handling affairs.

Things I am in favor of?

Drivers License/state issues ID card == Voter registered == proper ID
One vote per Identified voter.

Also, I would say mandatory run offs in any race with more than two candidates where less then a 5% margin decides it.
 
2006-10-23 3:00:54 PM  
revskippy

Things I am in favor of?

Drivers License/state issues ID card == Voter registered == proper ID
One vote per Identified voter.


Let's see how Nevada handles it. Who gets disenfranchised, how many lawsuits occur, etc.
 
2006-10-23 3:02:10 PM  
revskippy: Drivers License/state issues ID card == Voter registered == proper ID

where is the "that's racist" kid
 
2006-10-23 3:03:26 PM  
Of course. The courts aren't helping much, either, by sending an ambiguous message. Ex -- it's okay to flout election law in New Jersey by getting Lautenberg on the ballot after the official deadlines, or to keep the polls open in St. Louis after the official closing time. It's not legal to post an statement that "Voting for X is really a vote for Y", when X has resigned, because that's somehow electioneering. Theoretically, equal protection should imply such things as states ensuring that their voters have a roughly equal chance of having their votes actually counted, but nobody really freakin' knows whether that effectively means that all polling places (within a state, or within the country?) need to be using the same technology or at least systems with approximately equal error rate.


And then there's the mind-bogglingly odd decisions by some states, ex. Florida law apparently notes that a vote can be inferred from "clear indication of the will of the voter" or something like that... and then allowed counties to choose different interpretations of the state law. They were asking for a court challenge by going that way.


If you then take into account the vagueness of FEC regulations ex. what in-kind contributions are, the grey areas about what distinguishes harping in a particular way on an 'issue advocacy' manner with a deliberate attempt to influence specific elections, ex. when does a church loses its special tax-advantaged status for sermons, then of course they're going to be boatloads of lawsuits. And the states or counties which have chosen to use machines whose security has been severely questioned by people who likely know what they're doing... well, they're asking for lawsuits, too.


It's still better than a system in which the winner is chosen on the basis of connections, cash or Kalashnikovs, however.

 
2006-10-23 4:02:03 PM  
foster404

Drivers License/state issues ID card == Voter registered == proper ID

cost $35 for an ID= Poll tax?

How about the old bar code on the forehead


/have no solution for fix
 
2006-10-23 4:02:24 PM  

Wasn't everyone predicting litigation was going to occur after the 2004 presidential election? Kerry certainly had us fooled.
Kerry doesn't care, him or Bush... it's the same thing. They were both in Skulls And Bones, have strong ties to Bilderberg and corporations...

/both are bad for USA.
 
2006-10-24 11:59:50 PM  
What's that, Lassie? Democracy fell down the well?
 
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