Posted on 08/29/2010 4:05:23 PM PDT by drpix
Wow. Look at this quote by one of the members of the Houston city council on the red light camera vote:
“Legality challenged
“Several camera supporters on council disagreed, saying the proposal was “illegal” because it circumvented rules in the city charter that dictate that efforts to overturn city ordinances through referendum must be concluded within 30 days of a law taking effect. Since the red light camera ordinance was passed in 2004, some council members said, the petition was too late.
“Items like this don’t belong in the city charter,” said Councilwoman Anne Clutterbuck, who led the fight against the amendment. “Otherwise, we would be like California. ... Anything we vote on at this table could be overturned by petition.”
Can’t be having city council votes overturned by the voters, can they? /s
So... now that the machines are unusable, they will have to resort to MAIL IN VOTING.
Nothing could ‘go wrong’ there. (/s)
I have noticed there seems to be morning wave and an evening wave of threads on the same subject.
You should have posted a link to your thread.
“: )
That fire is suspicious.
Possible. More likely they just want to force everyone to use MAIL IN BALLOTS. Much easier for them to cheat than trying to rig the machines or sending in the Black Panthers (there are only 7 of them).
Many of these government-dependent, democrats don't actually go to vote, because they have to stand in line, the handicap parking is full with real handicap voters, and they might miss Oprah.
Having THEM be able to use a MAIL IN BALLOT to vote would almost ENSURE more of them voting.
He can probably find a bunch of former SEIU employees who would be happy to help out.
Paper ballots !!!!
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