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meg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 09:27 AM
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Theory: Why touch screens favor Republicans
Each race in an election is given a certain amount of real estate on a touch screen machine. Each candidate in the race is given a subset of that real estate. What if the Democratic choices are given minimal real estate on the screen and Republican choices are given maximum real estate?

If this is the case, the voter must be precise to select a Democrat. If the machine goes out of calibration, then there is a problem for Democratic voters trying to find the narrow piece of real estate that will allow them to vote correctly.

Meanwhile, a Republican voter can touch almost anywhere and have the vote recorded. Out of calibration? The Republican voter might not even notice.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-02-06 09:31 AM
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1. It has been six years, and very little has been done regarding
voting irregularities

One thing I know. If we have a LARGE voter turnout WE WILL WIN

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