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SHRED

(28,136 posts) Mon Dec 4, 2017, 03:39 AM Dec 2017

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Those damn voting machines

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Those damn voting machines (Original Post) SHRED Dec 2017 OP

GB's parliament boundaries arent even limited to being contiguous. Tiggeroshii Dec 2017 #1

Michigan has statewide paper ballots. longship Dec 2017 #2

MI. also threw out thousands of ballots from Detroit that "allegedly" didn't have ... brush Dec 2017 #3

Yeah, cause when I go to the polls in a presidential election, I always just forget rgbecker Dec 2017 #4

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)

1. GB's parliament boundaries arent even limited to being contiguous.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Dec 4, 2017, 04:49 AM

Dec 2017

longship

(40,416 posts)

2. Michigan has statewide paper ballots.

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Dec 4, 2017, 06:39 AM

Dec 2017

Drumpf narrowly won here. I hate it, but he did.

brush

(54,004 posts)

3. MI. also threw out thousands of ballots from Detroit that "allegedly" didn't have ...

Reply to longship (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 4, 2017, 08:55 AM

Dec 2017

a mark for the top slot — for the presidency.

Such bullshit. As if in a majority African American city thousands of black, Democratic voters would leave off voting for the Democratic Party's candidate for president.

Don't fall for the okey doke.

rgbecker

(4,839 posts)

4. Yeah, cause when I go to the polls in a presidential election, I always just forget

Reply to SHRED (Original post)

Mon Dec 4, 2017, 09:16 AM

Dec 2017

to vote for one of the presidential candidates.

WTF?

Maybe the lines were so long, people just sort of forgot why they were there?

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