Infamous Voting Machines Await Buyers

The Journal News ^ | 12/14/2003 | CARA MATTHEWS

[BushMeister]

MAHOPAC — Dennis Ullman likes to get close enough to history that he can touch and feel it. Once he found some 19th-century Bibles with gold-leaf pages in a Kingston junkyard and had them restored.

After some purchases from an online auction site and a trip to a surplus center in Miami-Dade County, Fla., the psychologist now has about 500 pounds of that state's past at his fingertips. They come in the form of the infamous voting machines used in the 2000 presidential elections.

[BushMeister]

I remember election morning 2000. It was a little before 6 AM, and I was outside the polling place in NY. I took a picture of the school building in the dim light of dawn. I felt a pall was about to be lifted from the nation.

Maybe I'll buy one of those voting machines to capture that feeling forever.

These might make nice Freeper souvenirs!

[martin_fierro]

Thanks.

[BushMeister]

I might buy one and vote for Pat Buchanan every morning!

[gitmo]

So much for owning something that helped decide whether America was Bushed or Gored three years ago. Democrat Al Gore won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote to Republican President Bush.

Were the Florida & California absentee ballots ever counted? Seems like there were enough outstanding ballots that could throw the popular vote to Bush.

[BushMeister]

The absentee ballots for CA and FL were counted, and are included in the total that shows Gore winning the popular vote by about 500,000 votes.