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President Decider Donating Member (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-30-08 08:07 AM
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** My Voting Experience **
Went to vote last Thursday in Georgia and the whole experience seemed rather surreal.

Got to my polling place, saw a line of about 300 people and thought, "Ok, this isn't too bad" .. which is really wasn't (about a 35 min. wait).

Went in to register and then made the walk to the back of the line making sure to smile and give eye contact to everyone there. What I thought was awesome is that I could basically pick out my fellow Obama supporters in the crowd. Something about the unspoken eye contact between Obama supporters... they look at each other with an implied wink and a smile as if we know something BIG is about to go down. It was almost as if then they returned the smile a gleaming trident appeared as a sparkle from their eyes.

Everything was cool until I made it up to the registration window. The older lady was friendly until I handed her my registration form and she brought my name up on her computer screen. I'm assuming she saw that I was a registered Democrat and her whole personna immediately changed. It was as if someone turned off the light switch. She then turned very unfriendly and curt .. no smile, and no lighthearted conversation as she previously demonstrated prior to handing her my registration.

I was like, "Oh well ... too bad!" ... Then she handed me my electronic card to put in the machine and said, "Stand over there and wait for the next available machine" ... to which I replied, "Will do ..... and you have a great day!"

Then it happened ... while standing in line waiting for the next machine I looked down at the card she handed me and it read, "DIEBOLD".... I immediately got sick to my stomach. I thought, you know what, if Obama doesn't win this election, based on the contrast I've seen between the two parties (truly good vs. evil) .... I'm done with this country. I swear to Crist, if Diebold has anything to do with any type of election fraud this year and attempts to steal this election, I'll know this country is no longer ours and the position of Presidency in government is nothing more than a SHAM ....




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