Reply #19: Voting in America

[dzika]

From Liberal and patriot blog:
Thursday, February 24, 2005

Voting in America

In 2000 we said "NEVER AGAIN" but in 2004 we learned that words mean nothing, and the next election was even worse.

Voting Irregularities, Misvotes, recounts, revote, all these new words that represent the confusion and disorder of our last presidential election.

In the State of Washington, Republicans are screaming and threatening to break off into a new state because of some misvotes, while the deeper more serious problems; the misvotes that we cannot even recount... because of paperless voting... Would you complacently make a deposit into an ATM machine without a paper receipt? I Think not.

SO let's read about Washington... Snohomish County voting irregularities this link takes you to a summary, but if you actually read the report, there are many interesting oddities, like a voting machine in Concrete that consistently voted for bush no matter who the voter voted for the rest of the ticket.

But don't stop there in Washington, There is plenty to read about Ohio.
Read the Vanity Fair article Ohio's odd numbers
What about Florida? Did we already forget about the 50,000 absentee ballots that "disappeared"???? Here's an article about Florida.


There are many websites that have sprung up just to address this stuff.
Here's VotersUnite.Org
and This one

And what do people we trust have to say about this?
Like Jimmy Carter?

and what about my new hero, Barbara Boxer?

I like what William Pitt has to say too.


Although Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org is a rather controversial figure, she managed to act as a lightning rod for so many of us others, and has been interviewed by people like Governor Howard Dean, who seemed to think she had a case for her concerns.
(see this commondreams article)

source: http://mimitabby.blogspot.com/2005/02/voting-in-america-in-2000-we-said.html