Or how about this? After the next election, they put up the results by county screen, and we get to "Touch Screen vote on the whether the counties that went Demonrat have to pay the majority of the taxes and house the majority of criminals.
Posted on 07/13/2002 10:00:41 PM PDT by SkyPilot
Palm Beach Holds Mock Election
Sat Jul 13,11:32 PM ET
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP)</big. - Hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2000 election debacle, Palm Beach County held a mock election Saturday to test its new touchscreen balloting machines.
At shopping malls and supermarkets across the county, nearly 4,000 residents voted on topics like favorite holiday, best president, greatest American athlete and favorite patriotic landmark. About 73 percent of voters said the words "under God" should stay in the Pledge of Allegiance.
The 3,100 touchscreen machines, which cost a total of $14.4 million, were supposed to help the county and state live down the memory of the "butterfly ballots" that marred the 2000 election, leading some to complain the ballot was so confusing they voted for the wrong candidate.
Their debut in city elections this winter brought suspicions about their accuracy. A Palm Beach councilman filed a lawsuit blaming his loss on the touchscreen machines.
But Saturday's election amounted only to a demonstration of the machines, not a measure of their accuracy. Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said she hoped the election would help voters familiar with punch-card ballots become more acquainted with the new technology.
However, LePore, who called demonstration "a great success," said her staff got some practice responding to a minor tabulating glitch.
A cartridge was removed from one voting machine too quickly, before results could be written onto it. But results were stored electronically in the machine, and elections workers were able to insert another one to download the results a second time.
A collection of congressmen had pushed for a mock election that would simulate voting conditions. LePore resisted, saying the cost of opening polling places no one would come to would outweigh the benefit.
Instead, she brought her voting machines out on a Saturday, mostly to places where people shop.
Following the recount that delayed completion of the presidential election results in 2000, Florida lawmakers banned punch card systems, saying counties could use touchscreen or optical-scan systems, in which voters fill in bubbles next to a candidate's name.
Great, now the Democrats will be cutting off the hands of corpses to vote. I guess Retina scans might work for awhile, but the stiff better be fresh so they can vote him /her.
Again !!!???
Or how about this? After the next election, they put up the results by county screen, and we get to "Touch Screen vote on the whether the counties that went Demonrat have to pay the majority of the taxes and house the majority of criminals.
Again !!!???
Who's counting?
You wouldn't happen to know the breakdown of the election by precinct would you?
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Palm Beach Hold Mock Election
Posted by SkyPilot
On Jul 14 9:00 AM with 3 comments
yahoo news and Associated Press ^ | 13 July 02
Polling Report on Election 2002
Posted by vannrox
On Jul 14 3:12 AM with 3 comments
Polling Report DOT Com ^ | FR Post 7-14-02 | Editorial Staff
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Posted by Snow Bunny
On Jul 13 11:53 AM with 1,518 comments
No, I don't have that. But I have a graphic representation of the Democrat versus Republican voters (see below.) Democrat voters are statistically skewed to the lower left corner of the X - and Y - axis.
I was being -- how you say? -- sarcastic.
Don't tell me, let me guess: Democrat voters immediately started complaining about "hanging pixels" on their touchscreens!
Maybe it's just me, but didn't they say that these electronic touchtone thingies would automatically send the totals to the county elections office? What's with these cartridges that can be so easily misplaced, or replaced with the "correct" amount of votes for a RAT candidate?
I never thought of that. Really. If the DNC does push, "high tech" on their voters, how will they react?
Punching a hole in the computer screen Tex? Ya know, that is not far from the truth.
I bet if they lose the next election, they will claim that the DNC placed a Computer Virus in their machines! Yes, and we need "Safe Computing." Uh huh, and "SILENCE = DEATH!" It wasn't their fault they got the Virus, it was just their "Lifestyle!"
Now, how to get them to explain that bottle of Jerkins by their voters computer screens?
Stop using Logic 101 on them! You are going to mess up their Evil Plan!
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