Mark Steyn: A catastrophic night for the Democrats (corrected)

The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 11/06/04 | Mark Steyn

[Tall_Texan]

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[XEHRpa]

> Yes, I'm disappointed with New Hampshire too

I hate to say this about my favorite commentator, Mr. Steyn, but didn't he, in a recent column, pledge to leave NH if it went for Kerry? I hope I'm hallucinating.

[Ruth A.]

Bumping, as usual. Nothing could be finer than Noonan and Steyn victory posts.

[Joan912]

They can whine all they want about the bogus exit polls, it won't change a damn thing: Kerry is still the loser, Bush is still the winner. Exit polling was their final, last-ditch attempt to undercut the election. Didn't work too well, did it?

[Joan912]

I would be perfectly willing to pull out my ss# and driver's license in order to vote; I don't know why it is not required now - oh wait, yes I do. If people have to prove who they are at the polls, felons, illegal aliens and the dead will no longer be able to vote for the Democrats... How long before a change?

[CFC__VRWC]

Even banks conduct their business electronically, and having little old ladies poring over looseleaf notebooks in this day and age seems a bit ridiculous. So I'd also be in favor of infrastructure investments, such as having polling places have wireless data access to the databases, for example.

Good ideas, but the biggest problem is paying for them. When it comes to voting system infrastructure, the responsibilty doesn't stop at the state level but actually ends up at the county level. And counties have other priorities, such as picking up trash, maintaining the roads, running the schools and catching the criminals. Election equipment and staff are generally low-priority items, and this is made even worse by Al Gore's attempts to game the election system in 2000, forcing counties to spend millions of dollars replacing punch card machines that had worked just fine for decades with touch screen systems that the Left has already demonized as worse than the punch card machines they replaced.

The money could be made available through grants from the federal government or even through the states, but even that will result in howls of outrage over the fed's "hijacking of yet another responsibility of local government," though 3/4ths of that would actually be coming from the ACORN types, whose mission to deliver as many fraudulent votes to Rats as possible would be made much more difficult.

[lainde]

bttt

[fivekid]

Same in MN. They had a table on the other side of the room.

I am so disgusted with this state, I can not believe

frankenkerry won here. At least the county I live in is

conservative, and that makes things easier. :)

[Psalm 73]

"....the 'rats have about 43%."

Yeah - I was just guestimating the 45% (which is pretty close to 43%).
But actually the 43% figure makes it even more interesting - with kerry @48%, that means there were 5%, not 3% of voters that should have been tapped (war-time, relatively good economy).
Makes Coulters point even stronger.