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Nov. 5th, 2004 03:12 pmconuly
Now, of course, I'm getting repetitive, but I'm pissed.
Nothing changes, I know, but at least people need to know what's going on.
As always, corrections and updates are appreciated.
Edit: And an editorial about this. How many links an I up to?
Nothing changes, I know, but at least people need to know what's going on.
As always, corrections and updates are appreciated.
Edit: And an editorial about this. How many links an I up to?
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Date: 2004-11-05 04:02 pm (UTC)I'm not going to address the question of voting fraud in itself, because I would be a fool not to believe that it does and has happened.
From your first link: So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?"
1) I've never been questioned as I exited, even when I had a polling place to exit from. (For around ten years now the voting district in which I was registered had done away with voting machines and gone absentee for everyone.)
2) If I had been questioned, I would certainly not tell the nosyparker for whom I had voted.
Also from the first link: Hispanics were given provisional ballots, rather than the countable kind "almost religiously," he said, at polling stations when there was the least question about a voter's identification.
Yeah, because letting people vote without confirming that they're actually registered voters is SUCH a great idea. Questionable ID is one of the prime ways to get yourself disqualified from voting, or so I understood it from civics class.
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Date: 2004-11-05 04:05 pm (UTC)What I've heard (though I can't confirm this) is that they were more meticulous about checking the IDs of some votors than others.
It's the AP articles that pissed me off. The rest is just a sign of the collective upsettedness that's pouring through the people I know and causing them to make links. I accept no responsibility for the contents of any links.
Except the AP articles. That's mainstream media, and while I know that doesn't make it correct, or even more likely to be correct, it does lend the articles some weight.
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Date: 2004-11-05 06:49 pm (UTC)Vincent Hanna: One voter; 16,472 votes. A slight anomaly...?
Much of the transcript (http://blackadder.powertie.org/transcripts/3/1/) is appropriate actually, and it's just generally worth a read.
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Date: 2004-11-05 04:02 pm (UTC)I'm not going to address the question of voting fraud in itself, because I would be a fool not to believe that it does and has happened.
From your first link: So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?"
1) I've never been questioned as I exited, even when I had a polling place to exit from. (For around ten years now the voting district in which I was registered had done away with voting machines and gone absentee for everyone.)
2) If I had been questioned, I would certainly not tell the nosyparker for whom I had voted.
Also from the first link: Hispanics were given provisional ballots, rather than the countable kind "almost religiously," he said, at polling stations when there was the least question about a voter's identification.
Yeah, because letting people vote without confirming that they're actually registered voters is SUCH a great idea. Questionable ID is one of the prime ways to get yourself disqualified from voting, or so I understood it from civics class.
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Date: 2004-11-05 04:05 pm (UTC)What I've heard (though I can't confirm this) is that they were more meticulous about checking the IDs of some votors than others.
It's the AP articles that pissed me off. The rest is just a sign of the collective upsettedness that's pouring through the people I know and causing them to make links. I accept no responsibility for the contents of any links.
Except the AP articles. That's mainstream media, and while I know that doesn't make it correct, or even more likely to be correct, it does lend the articles some weight.
no subject
Date: 2004-11-05 06:49 pm (UTC)Vincent Hanna: One voter; 16,472 votes. A slight anomaly...?
Much of the transcript (http://blackadder.powertie.org/transcripts/3/1/) is appropriate actually, and it's just generally worth a read.