Results in Ohio Still Contested (Death By Laughter Alert!)

Akron Beacon Journal ^ | 12/02/2004 | Steven Thomma

[dfwgator]

[Rudder]

I live in Southern (SE) Ohio and cannot recall who is the black female candidate nor the county in question. Do you know?

[HawaiianGecko]

Arnebeck said exit polls were better proof of voting than vote results.

``The exit-polling process is sponsored by news organizations, which are professionally committed to truth, not the distorted picture one party wants to convey,'' he said. ``It is a much more credible form of evidence of how people voted than this incredibly partisan machinery we have in place to conduct our elections.''

I'm with you on that one, lol

[RockinRight]

Can't remember her name. She's in the Dayton area.

[agrace]

OUCH. Go Blackwell.

[Edgerunner]

Stopit...HAhahhahahahahaha...STOPIT...Ohhhhhahahahahaha...I can't help it...Snick,snick...Ohhhmyguthurts...these people in different dimension...ohmy...got to sit...hehhehheh...sufferDims...honey,quit laffing,please...

[You Dirty Rats]

Ping.

[HawaiianGecko]

I've been professionally programming computers since November of 1968 and I can think of no application that is better suited for a computer than the recording of votes in an election. Each question on a ballot is 'binary' in nature. You vote for this guy or not.

It's not like it's a Material Requirements Planning system or a program for pivotal method solving for 100 unknowns from 100 simultaneous equations for crying out loud. All of this BS about these machines voting their own minds is just that BS. However, since the vast majority of the public still thinks that computers are magical machines they are easily led into the realm of tin-foil thinking about these machines.

Can you imagine what Diebold's insurance and bonding costs would be if they were to install code one these machines that tilted one way or the other. Does anyone realize that this code isn't hidden from simple testing, all one has to do is dump the core and look at the machine code to verify what it is doing.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to verify this, it only takes a good ole hacker and this nation has tons of us.

[xzins]

go to #37 if you have time

[Edgerunner]

I propose that we need to prepare lists of all Republican electors in the nation for the purpose of contacting them directly to convince them to change their vote to Kerry.

Well that worked just fine for the Guardian!
(remember the change your vote to Kerry campaign that illustrious rag tried in Ohio?)

[The canadian]

What the hell else do liberals have except WORDS--continues meaningless words.

[Conspiracy Guy]

They never cease to amaze me.

[artios]

Actually the vote outcome doesn't matter. The state government selects its electors, usually based on the vote. However, once they select their electors and the electors vote its a done deal. (Except in the case of a tie and he house votes)

[mvpel]

The problem is not the binary nature of the problem, but the manner of implementation of tracking the results. They use MS Access and have mechanisms in the code whereby an entire table of results can be replaced by another table with no evidence whatsoever.

[WKUHilltopper]

Nimrods...can't they think of other ways to piss away tax dollars for nothing?

[jpl]

Now down to just four more days until the Ohio vote gets officially certified, and then one more week after that until the Electoral College officially votes.

[Mr. Thorne]

Not offhand.

I'm in Franklin County, and it seems to me that the race and party of supreme court candidates was not listed on MY ballot.

Maybe I'm wrong, mayhap my memory is going, but as I recall, I needed the official Kerry voting guide so as to know which of the 'minor' players to avoid.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall any party announced on advertisements for judicial elections. I don't think they're allowed to run as a dem, or a republican.

So, that may explain why the black chick did better than Kerry. No one knew the party, no one knew the race; heck, if she has a 'gender-neutral' name, maybe no one knew her sex!

This dude just popped up on the radio again. Good grief. Lord, what has Ohio done to deserve this?

[XJarhead]

``In southern Ohio, there's no reason to believe a black female candidate would be outperforming Kerry,'' said Cliff Arnebeck, an attorney for the group.

What a moron. The "black female" candidate was C. Ellen Connolly. Given to almost complete lack of TV ads in her race, it's a lead-pipe cinch that the vast majority of voters had no idea she was black. Most of the people I've talked to in northern Ohio had no clue, and thought she was Irish.

[agrace]

Your absolutely correct of course. No party affiliations on the ballot for judiciary. I'm a new resident of Summit County and had to look all of ours up.