Posted on 11/04/2004 6:49:35 AM PST by Pokey78
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> 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.
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?
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?
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.
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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.
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