The new repuke tactic in screwing with the election...

[Javaman]

It has nothing to do with flipping votes or playing with the codes, they are relying on the basic principle that the machines just plain suck.

We have been screaming about this shit for years, yet (and this will happen sometime tomorrow) they will claim that because the machine froze, didn't turn on, didn't turn off, didn't serve the right brand of coffee, that everything about them is questionable (sounds like us, huh?) but yet, they will get a hearing because until January they still control things.

Be prepared for these whiny ass bastard repukes to drag this shit out forever. (like we should have done in 04) Only difference this time, they will actually get heard because the supreme, we'll do the appointin' around here and don't you forget it, court will deem their argument worthy of their bullshit jobs.

You can see it beginning with Mean Shit, uh-hem, excuse me, Jean Schmitt and the Governor from South Carolina making like they were so surprised at the problems they were having. Plus other voting issues rolling in from around the country.

This is another rover tactic. When all you have is lemons (the prospect of losing both the house and the senate) you make lemonade! (using the Dems anger from past elections as your new edge) weeeeeee!!!!

I weep for our future.

[Boo Boo]

1. What I want to see is the distribution of machine problems by

voter demographic. For instance, in FL they're saying that Davis needs big turnout in Broward to win. Well, Broward just happens to be where they had startup problems in the morning so that many people trying to vote on their way to work had to give up. Pittsburgh (where you'll find many of the Dem voters in PA) had the same kind of problem.

Is this a case of poll workers not being able to work the system? Or, is it a case of last minute updating of system code. If the distribution of failures tracks with Dem districts, then I'd like to know when the machines were last updated. The problem, of course, is that by the time the polls close it is way too late to do a damn thing about it. The only recourse is to try to keep the polls open for a few extra hours and hope the morning voters that couldn't vote return.

I hate these frickin' machines.

On a side note: it boggles my mind that people who live in States with absentee voting still fart around with trying to find time on election day, driving to the polls, parking, waiting in line, putting up with this asinine broke-ass machine bullshit...

Cripes.