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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-15-10 04:08 PM
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13. Thank you for your continued efforts on this.
Our democracy has been hacked in every single way that it can.

The voting machinery, owned by companies in bed with politicians.

The auctioning off of every important issue such that the President is a mere spokesperson spinning how well the new Corproate Policies will beneift We the Peon. (no longer are we "We the People." In fact, maybe we are only "We the Peed On")
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  -Diebold to Decide Tuesday's 'Toss-Up' Special Election for U.S. Senate in MA BradBlog  Jan-15-10 03:24 PM   #0 
  - hmmm. no wonder Brown is so confident  Matariki   Jan-15-10 03:25 PM   #1 
  - My area uses paper ballots.  MUAD_DIB   Jan-15-10 03:38 PM   # 
  - Paper ballots counted by.......  BeFree   Jan-15-10 03:51 PM   #10 
  - At some point the could also just burn the ballots.  MUAD_DIB   Jan-15-10 07:08 PM   #35 
  - heh  BeFree   Jan-15-10 10:05 PM   #39 
     - Heh, MA doesn't use who punch ballots.  MUAD_DIB   Jan-15-10 10:19 PM   #42 
        - Paper  BeFree   Jan-15-10 10:24 PM   #43 
  - Computers do not make mistakes  Ohio Joe   Jan-16-10 05:42 AM   #55 
  - Please call your local Registrar of Voters and ask  truedelphi   Jan-15-10 04:05 PM   #12 
     - Once the ballots leave the precincts, there is a greater likelihood that the chain of  diva77   Jan-15-10 06:08 PM   #33 
     - Oh yeah that is a very good point.  truedelphi   Jan-15-10 06:37 PM   #34 
     - Thanks for the concern.  MUAD_DIB   Jan-15-10 07:10 PM   #36 
        - I am only trying to show that the "myth" that paper ballots  truedelphi   Jan-16-10 05:03 PM   #62 
  - Never forget: All the Rs need to do is get it close enough to steal  CakeGrrl   Jan-15-10 03:38 PM   #2 
  - That was my first thought.  moondust   Jan-15-10 09:54 PM   #38 
  - Yeah, now THAT should be fair.  HopeHoops   Jan-15-10 03:40 PM   #3 
  - Paper ballots where I vote.  TheCowsCameHome   Jan-15-10 03:45 PM   #4 
  - READ THE FULL ARTICLE  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 05:21 PM   #22 
     - Other than nasty replies to posts.....  TheCowsCameHome   Jan-15-10 05:41 PM   #29 
        - Ahhh  BeFree   Jan-15-10 10:15 PM   #41 
        - Apparently you missed the point (twice?)  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 11:34 PM   #47 
           - Well, since the system will not change between now and Tuesday morning  TheCowsCameHome   Jan-16-10 07:59 AM   #56 
              - I think you could also be prepared to demand your vote be counted. By hand.  KittyWampus   Jan-16-10 09:10 AM   #59 
  - Well that's just swell.  City Lights   Jan-15-10 03:46 PM   #5 
  - As far as I know, most of MA votes on paper that is tallied using optical scan. nt  boston bean   Jan-15-10 03:48 PM   #6 
  - although in boston they do use the lever machines. nt  boston bean   Jan-15-10 03:49 PM   #9 
  - And again... READ THE ARTICLE  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 05:22 PM   #23 
  - yeah, if she loses that will be the excuse of some.  WI_DEM   Jan-15-10 03:49 PM   #7 
  - yeah, and if HE loses, it'll also be the excuse for some. And a damned good one (n/t)  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 11:38 PM   #48 
  - Things are smelling mighty funny in this election  Blue Owl   Jan-15-10 03:49 PM   #8 
  - I wonder whether they've figured out how to make the "win" happen before midnight yet  diva77   Jan-15-10 03:53 PM   #11 
  - Thank you for your continued efforts on this.  truedelphi   Jan-15-10 04:08 PM   #13 
  - We arent living in a constutitional run democratic republic, so what'd you expect? nt  rhett o rick   Jan-15-10 04:10 PM   #14 
  - Shit. n/t  drm604   Jan-15-10 04:13 PM   #15 
  - Why are we still using diebold? We KNOW its a bad system...  winyanstaz   Jan-15-10 04:17 PM   #16 
  - Media has already "decided" it.. No matter what "some" polls said,  SoCalDem   Jan-15-10 04:19 PM   #17 
  - One thought.  SnakeEyes   Jan-16-10 05:34 PM   #63 
     - Brown's "closeness" may be hype & magnification of that hype  SoCalDem   Jan-16-10 06:40 PM   #64 
  - Fuck!  Froward69   Jan-15-10 04:21 PM   #18 
  - we are screwn n/t  WhiteTara   Jan-15-10 04:31 PM   #19 
  - Why is it even this close?  humbled_opinion   Jan-15-10 04:49 PM   #20 
  - Most ballots are paper ballots in Mass  rox63   Jan-15-10 04:52 PM   #21 
  - And one more time ... PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 05:24 PM   #24 
  - You missed what the article said:  avaistheone1   Jan-15-10 05:28 PM   #25 
  - Yup, and...  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 05:40 PM   #28 
  - I hope it's enough to offset the dibold factor in other places.  GreenPartyVoter   Jan-15-10 05:44 PM   #30 
  - well then, Mr Skin will have the race handed to him on a silver platter...n/t  arthritisR_US   Jan-15-10 05:30 PM   #26 
  - That is outrageous!!  Duval   Jan-15-10 05:32 PM   #27 
  - Diebold...no!  Guilded Lilly   Jan-15-10 05:57 PM   #31 
  - O.M.G.!  MoonRiver   Jan-15-10 06:02 PM   #32 
  - The magic words  The Wizard   Jan-15-10 09:49 PM   #37 
  - It aint the voters that count, it's ones who count the votes - Joseph Stalin  bikingaz   Jan-15-10 10:07 PM   #40 
  - The Magic Words ... are not what you say they are...  BradBlog   Jan-15-10 11:41 PM   #49 
  - hmmmmmm  Blasphemer   Jan-15-10 10:32 PM   #44 
  - In our district, we do have paper scan ballots  jonathon   Jan-15-10 10:46 PM   #45 
  - Yes  BeFree   Jan-15-10 11:25 PM   #46 
  - K&R  sabrina 1   Jan-16-10 12:13 AM   #50 
  - When the News media started going on about  Chisox08   Jan-16-10 12:21 AM   #51 
  - It is. This is democracy being overturned one vote at the time.  Betty Karlson   Jan-16-10 05:32 AM   #53 
  - You are absolutely correct...  annabanana   Jan-16-10 05:35 AM   #54 
  - O my God,  Betty Karlson   Jan-16-10 05:30 AM   #52 
  - Maybe they will get caught cheating this time?  Hubert Flottz   Jan-16-10 08:26 AM   #57 
  - They have already been caught dozens of times  ooglymoogly   Jan-16-10 10:33 AM   #61 
  - kick  KittyWampus   Jan-16-10 09:07 AM   #58 
  - The sad and scary thing is, Coakley is a prosecutor and a wet mop to boot  ooglymoogly   Jan-16-10 10:21 AM   #60 
  - Thanks for your tireless efforts to alert us to these problems, Brad.  bertman   Jan-16-10 11:24 PM   #65 
  - MA had some peculiar results on Super Tuesday  jbnow   Jan-17-10 01:58 AM   #66 
  - Yes, that was soon, and I now understand the afraid part better.  jotsy   Jan-17-10 12:28 PM   #67 
 

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