Well, in a sense it is, in that there *are* wrong answers:
Posted on 09/26/2004 12:25:43 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Will eager voters turn out in droves, come Nov. 2? Maybe not. A group of social and behavioral scientists, legal scholars, cyber-security experts, academics, public-interest advocates and election officials recently determined that the American system of voting is a mess.
"What can go wrong? Everything," said Susan Inmann, director of elections for Pulaski County in Arkansas and a member of an 18-person panel assembled last week by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to study the challenges of the polling place.
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In other words, prepare for Goregate II.
All right, who's got the .jpg of the blurry eyed Florida chad inspector?
Bump!
For 225 years we've been voting. It's now a mess because a specific socialist candidate in the 2004 election year isn't going to win.
If this is too much for you then you should not be voting.
Oops, stop right there.
The folks out there who can't name a Senator or the current VP - maybe 30% of the US - vote for the Dems.
Well, in a sense it is, in that there *are* wrong answers:
”Another study revealed that people who watch late-night TV had better overall political knowledge than those who simply turned off their sets and went bed.”
Ah … yes … the late show intelligentsia.
” Easy Voter, a California-based consortium of literacy and voter-advocacy groups determined that first-time voters had "performance anxiety" when heading to the polls because they were uncertain of the protocol, couldn't read the ballot or felt that "voting was like taking a test."
Is there any place in this Union that a registered voter does not receive a sample ballot prior to the election?
”Easy Voter” consortium? Good grief!
Let’s go back to stuffing a piece of paper with the voters choice written in his/her own writing in a box!
Now folks are getting impotent from the big scary voting machines. Pathetic drivel brought to we the people by the public school system.
Dumb us down into the slavery we will ultimately deserve.
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