Which of the following states can Republicans steal votes in?

[gully]

Dem pickups according to http://www.electionprojection.com/elections2006.html are listed below.

The states in bold currently lack a voter verified paper ballot:

AZ-08
FL-13 FL-16
IA-02
IN-02 IN-08 IN-09
KY-03
NC-08 NC-11
NH-02
NM-01
NY-19 NY-24 NY-25 NY-29
OH-15 OH-18 P ??? VVPR required, no audit.
PA-06 PA-07 PA-10
TX-22
WI-08

Feel free to double check my information here: http://www.verifiedvoting.org/index.php

The projected outcome is currently Dems + 20, GOP - 19 IND + 1 which would play out thusly: 213 GOP, 222 DEM, 1 IND

If the R's are able to steal the states in bold due to the lack of a paper trail, the outcome will be 222 GOP, 212 DEMS

:scared:

[Nite Owl]

1. We are planning to win in NY20!

Mostly the old lever machines but a small area has electronic voting and they are in the home base of John Sweeney who was the mastermind behind the young gop rioters in FL in '00.

[gully]

4. Good to know!

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[Imagevision]

2. Rove is concerned with Tenn. Georgia, New Jersey needs to control

the seats he needs the Dems NOT to win - or Rove needs to control the election numbers, plain and simple!

[tenshi816]

3. I'm worried about one you didn't mention,

the GA 8th District race, incumbent Democrat Rep. Jim Marshall running against Republican challenger Mac Collins.

Thanks to gerrymandering (and it's odd for me to type those words and mean it), I'm now in Marshall's district instead of Lyn Westmoreland's (Westmoreland, you might recall, was the dipshit who couldn't name the Ten Commandments when he was on the Daily Show, while still wanting them displayed in government buildings, but I digress...).

Anyway, back to the subject at hand. All the polls show Marshall hanging on to his seat by a slim majority, but it's a very close race. Collins is a popular man in that district with the redneck contingent - we lived in the same town and I met him a few times years ago, and he's typical of the southern good ol' boy who "did well" in life and decided to enter politics, but I find him deeply unpleasant. However, he appeals to the fundies, plus he's been running a series of attack ads alleging Marshall wants to give full citizenship to all of the nation's illegal immigrants, and that will pull in the anti-immigration vote.

There are a lot of black voters in the 8th District and they tend to support Marshall, but I don't know if that's enough.

My point is that I don't think that many votes would have to be stolen to flip the GA 8th to the Republican column. I voted absentee weeks ago myself (I'm a UK resident now) and I voted for Marshall, but I admit that I hesitated before voting because Marshall voted "aye" on the torture bill and that doesn't sit well with me. In the end I decided to hold my nose and vote for him anyway because I can't stomach the alternative, but I find myself wondering if there are other Democrats in the 8th district who decide just to sit this election out rather than vote for a man who voted to approve torture. If that's the case, then combine that with a big fundie/redneck turnout, and the GOP wouldn't have to steal many votes in such a close race to make it go their way.

Maybe I'm being too paranoid. Maybe the GA 8th will remain Democratic, but I'll be uneasy about it until it happens. Remember, Georgia was the first state to use electronic voting machines, and we know what happened then.

Edit: grammar

[gully]

12. Interesting

thanks.

[seabeyond]

5. TX 2004 dem vote switched to repug and hard to correct n/t

[salin]

6. Indiana also did a voter registration purge

lots of problems already identified.

[gully]

7. Interesting.

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[kevinbgoode]

8. I want the Pukes well under 200 . . .

we need a rout! Those scumbags need to lose so many seats that there isn't a fundie capable of hogging the House floor again with such trash as the Terri Schiavo fiasco.

[gully]

9. LOL

agreed.

[BeFree]

10. Just because there is a paper trail

Doesn't mean the vote is safe from being hacked. Just saying.

Good work, Gully.

[gully]

11. So I hear.

But, we can at least ask for a recount? That gives me "slight" comfort. But, I must admit after seeing this I feel less hopeful knowing how far we have to go.

Thanks BeFree.

[BeFree]

13. Recount?

Ohhh, that's a dirty word around my elections office. Shoot, I'm having a hell of a time convincing them to do a simple audit.

Anyway, be not depressed. We are on this like red on a cherry. With contributions like your's being put into the mix we are far better able to build a fraud case this time.

[gully]

19. That's great to hear BeFree.

Thank you!

"We are on this like red on a cherry."

[SoCalDem]

16. Exactly.. What's to prevent someone from

just having the "inner workings" of the machines "transfer" 15% of "D" votes to "R" votes, every few hours.?

There is little or NO chance that any recounts will occur anyway, and most of the people involved in the process have been well-trained to "expect glitches"..

"Glitch" is the common excuse for "gee there's nothing we can do about it because they just happen".. move on..nothing to see here

[gully]

17. Well, we'd have to demand one,

but I don't know that Dem candidates are prepared to do so?

[leftchick]

14. NC 8 is guilford county

all touch screens. And Coble-R has no serious competition. And he is a piece of shit.

[SoCalDem]

15. They have already decided

Missouri, Tennessee & Virginia :(

[gully]

18. I should have specified that my post is regarding the house races.

I think they'll keep the senate, barely.