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conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2004-11-05 03:12 pm

And yet another [profile] priyatelka-link!

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?

[identity profile] marveen.livejournal.com 2004-11-05 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, for god's sake.

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.



[identity profile] eofs.livejournal.com 2004-11-05 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm suddenly reminded of Blackadder...

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.

[identity profile] marveen.livejournal.com 2004-11-05 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, for god's sake.

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.



[identity profile] eofs.livejournal.com 2004-11-05 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm suddenly reminded of Blackadder...

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.