Comments on: The ‘08 Vote http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:29:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: JimTheCynic http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-604 JimTheCynic Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:50 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/#comment-604 <p>If Karl Rove is sitting in the jail in the basement of the Capitol, then maybe vote creativity will be a little less influential. </p> <p>None of the electronic voting machines/systems are secure. They are all easily hackable and manipulable. The optical scan voting counters are also just as vulnerable.</p> <p>What’s wrong with taking a couple of days to count ALL the paper ballots one by one?</p> <p>oh… that’s right… The MSM must have its “Elections 2008″ Presidential coverage, with a guaranteed winner by midnight. Gotta get those viewers in for the cheapest night of high-ratings prime-time TV. and Americans <em>just don’t have the patience</em> (or the attention span) to wait that long…</p> If Karl Rove is sitting in the jail in the basement of the Capitol, then maybe vote creativity will be a little less influential.

None of the electronic voting machines/systems are secure. They are all easily hackable and manipulable. The optical scan voting counters are also just as vulnerable.

What’s wrong with taking a couple of days to count ALL the paper ballots one by one?

oh… that’s right… The MSM must have its “Elections 2008″ Presidential coverage, with a guaranteed winner by midnight. Gotta get those viewers in for the cheapest night of high-ratings prime-time TV. and Americans just don’t have the patience (or the attention span) to wait that long…

]]> By: homas http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-603 homas Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:04:39 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/#comment-603 <p>I would urge many camcorders at the polling stations to record any fascist interference in the right to vote.</p> I would urge many camcorders at the polling stations to record any fascist interference in the right to vote.

]]> By: Elliott http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Elliott Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:12:59 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/#comment-602 <p>love that short, Laura, thanks</p> love that short, Laura, thanks

]]> By: rwcole http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/comment-page-1/#comment-601 rwcole Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:06:27 +0000 http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/07/22/the-08-vote/#comment-601 <p>The other possibility is that dems become overly confident and forget to fight in the fall. The presidential race is still extremely close.</p> The other possibility is that dems become overly confident and forget to fight in the fall. The presidential race is still extremely close.

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