Some Problems In Early Voting

cBS/AP ^ | 11.02.04

[4kevin]

On election eve, voting officials from Florida to Oregon were already dealing with problems that could slow down voting and lead to court challenges if results are close.

Four years after the Florida debacle in which thousands of votes may not have counted, CBS News/New York Times poll conducted Thursday through Saturday found that most voters — 70 percent — were not concerned or not very concerned about whether their vote will be counted this year.

But Republicans and Democrats have traded charges for weeks over alleged voter fraud or plans to intimidate people trying to exercise their franchise.

Nowhere has seen more pre-election legal wrangling than Ohio, where courts have wrestled with a Republican challenge to the validity of 35,000 voting registrations and a Democratic complaint about GOP plans to monitor polling places.

[4kevin]

This is going to be one looooong messy day!

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[COBOL2Java]

Of course the Democrats don't want Republican poll watchers! They've already discovered 2,000 votes in Philadelphia machines even before the polls had opened. Who wants to wager that if the Republicans weren't there, this would have never surfaced?

[July 4th]

Four years after the Florida debacle in which thousands of votes may not have counted

More editorializing from the AP. Didn't their own study conclude that the election was fair and that all the votes were counted?

[AppyPappy]

CBS News/New York Times poll conducted Thursday through Saturday found that most voters — 70 percent — were not concerned or not very concerned about whether their vote will be counted this year.

70% don't care. That leaves 30% for care or indifferent. The MSM is the only group that cares about this.

[Diogenesis]

[Mister Baredog]

Four years after the Florida debacle in which thousands of votes may not have counted, CBS News/New York Times

Perpetuating the MYTH. My lord there was never an election where the same ballots were counted SOOOOOOO many times they became dogeared.

Many news agencies and legal teams were all over those ballots for months and they're still claiming thousands that weren't counted. cBS at it again.

[tiki]

I trust this was taken care of? The machines being set to zero is the first thing for a poll watcher to check.

[kevao]

As Kim Jong-il would say, we going to have one rong, hard erection.

[SaveTheChief]

2000 taught the Democrats a valuable lesson, that they could contest the laws and the will of the American people when they do not get their way.

This is going to be a messy day, indeed.

[John O]

Many news agencies and legal teams were all over those ballots for months and they're still claiming thousands that weren't counted

There were thousands of votes not counted. Military Absentee votes.

[Mister Baredog]

There were thousands of votes not counted. Military Absentee votes.

I stand corrected, thank you I almost forgot.