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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 10:59 AM
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Another Republican failure: HAVA.
Help America Vote Act.

As we have come to expect, this ballyhooed effort to look patriotic and responsible after the mess that was the 2000 election was just another way to rig the game and shovel our money to Bush cronies selling voting machines.

We may now use the numerous reports of voting problems with these machines as proof that, once again, the Katrina administration does not know how to do its job competently and honestly.
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 11:05 AM
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1. All the problems with this election is just another example
of how the repukes don't know the first thing about management.
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NOLADEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 11:08 AM
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2. Depends on how you define failure...HAVA is a success to Republicans
It suppresses Dem voter blocks.
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 11:44 AM
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5. Exactly.
What it DOESN'T do is "Help America Vote." Ergo, it's a failure, though, of course you are right that it is a success for one party.
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Altean Wanderer Donating Member (202 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 11:08 AM
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3. HAVA was a success for Repugs not a failure
by installing many more electronic voting machines all over the place.

Let's work to make sure our numbers overcomes their hanky panky, happening no doubt at this very moment in multiple voting districts.

Back to my sign post...
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 11:43 AM
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4. That was my point.
It worked for them, not for "America," which they claimed to want to "help."
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-07-06 11:53 AM
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6. I loved the George Will column blaming HAVA on the federal
government. Oddly enough, I was under the impression it had something to do with all the Republicans in Congress. Seeing all the put-downs of electronic voting machines coming from Republicans in the last few days makes me wonder if they suddenly realized that they couldn't fix the elections this time around and decided to to spread doubts about the outcome ahead of time. They're still whining about JFK beating Nixon back in 1960!
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