Posted on 11/08/2006 11:30:36 PM PST by tcrlaf
INDIANAPOLIS -- All of the votes cast in Marion County still had not been counted as of early Wednesday afternoon because some voting machines had not been turned in to election headquarters.
The county's Democratic Party attacked County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler for what they called her mismanagement of Tuesday's election, 6News' Derrik Thomas reported.
Democrat Chairman Ed Treacy compared the county's election troubles with what used to happen in Soviet bloc countries.
Sixty-six regular voting machines were not returned to election headquarters as of noon Wednesday, and none of the electronic voting machines was returned, Thomas reported.
The outcome of the state House District 97 race and three township races hinged on the missing election data.
(Excerpt) Read more at theindychannel.com ...
And if I can add one more thing to your list. I think that Iraq has the right idea... You need to be marked to only allow a person to vote one time, like ink on the right index finger. And have police stationed to disallow anyone with the inkstain from entering the building. Of course the same people who opposed showing ID when you vote will oppose this... So, if an amputee doesn't have a right index finger, use a different finger on the same hand, If he's missing his hand, use the left index finger. If he's a double amputee, mark his nose...
Mark
Newt Gingrich said it best last night. He said that somewhere along the way, the Republicans started playing "not to lose" rather than to win.
I don't disagree with the overall feeling of outrage over any voting disenfranchisement.
However...in this country in general, we need fewer laws, not more.
If we have to put all these rules on voting, especially at local levels as in voting, then we may as well pack it in as a country.
The only way we're gonna get your suggested reforms is if people adopt some common decency and respect.
Otherwise you're talking a Robocop force of national proportions.
In what state did this occur?
The Feds were supposed to take care of this after the Florida 2000 fiasco. The fact that they haven't is telling.
Busted.
State was Indiana and if I'm not mistaken, it was in the southern district (bloomington) where Sodrel and Baron Hill were fighting it out....Hill won by a narrow margin....
Type in "repository" in keyword search. After you've read a dozen or more threads there let me know what you think.
Marion County, Indiana is home of Indiana Wesleyan University. It's a conservative Christian place of learning: conservative professors, ministerial students, pre-missionaries, etc. Of course some of the students vote absentee in their home states, but many don't.
Wonder where the ballot boxes are missing from...
And they'd work too... which is why neither political party will want to impose these limits on themselves.
On to Box #4....
LOL Funny how that works.
How many votes are in 66 voting machines? Enough for Dickerson to make up a 9,000-vote deficit? I assume that if most of these precincts are in the Marion County suburbs that the answer is "yes."
The CongressCritters won't be harmed nearly as much as their fellow voters.
Apparently, they've chosen to eat worms until 2008. And the best news is they've got all the Heinz-Kerry ketchup they could smother them with! Yum!
FUNNER? DUH! That should be "finger"! And I even used spell check......
Send me $10.00 and I'll get right on it.
Sixty-six machines???!!! That is a massive fraud if they are really "missing".
In my opinion, there can be only "1" reason for the obvious REFUSAL to put an end to this insidious behavior. And that is a fear that the dirty deeds of the accuser will be exposed...
RE the handy cap machines. They automatically turn off at 6:00 pm. Can only be used if a disc is inserted. That disc must be in possession of either the Inspector or a Judge all day and MUST be turned in with the election results.......The machine may not have been returned but is non-operable without the disc.
ALL machines print a tape at the end of the day, which accompanies the Inspector and the Judge of the opposite party to the clerk's office....There is much accompanying paper work signed by all poll workers to verify the voting results. I imagine that has been done in meticulous details. It is the actual vote.
Missing machines does NOT equal missing votes.
Gee, I wonder why posters from other states didn't think to ask one of you from Indiana?
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