Florida vote goes from chad to worse - Glitches bedevil new system; Reno trails

Associated Press ^ | September 12, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

[Joe Boucher]

As a Florida Repub. I just love the mess that is affecting just the dims this time. How are they going to blame this mess on the repubs? You know they will try. Go JEB.

[Monty22]

The irony of this is both wonderful and revolting. reno dying by the goron sword as well?

Does any thinking person doubt that these liberal counties are full of fools?

[leftiesareloonie]

Don't be too gleeful about this. Even if no sane person would blame Bush, this is going to have a serious downside for him come the election. It's going to increase the "we wuz robbed" turnout come November. Prediction: whoever wins the democratic primary will get massive support from the loser's voters, because the dems will want to "take back" the election process.

Do not expect a similarly high turn out for Bush. Anger motivates. Complacency dampens turnout.

I'm not arguing the merits of the case here. Just saying that if you look at it from a RAT voter's point of view, you see that it revives and validates all their anger over 2000, which had sort of quieted down before this. So this is not a good thing for Bush. It really could cost him the electin

[Monty22]

That's assuming this crowd has a memory longer than a few weeks, I doubt it.

I see your point though.. This proves that election fraud will happen again in democrat regions as well.

[Diogenesis]

[perez24]

I agree...I think the "problem" was that the machines were'nt able to generate enough pro-Reno votes based solely on how people voted...and they haven't invented the technology to cheat on these new machines yet.

[TxBec]

In Miami-Dade, nearly half of the ballots that were still uncounted Wednesday were cast by black voters.

are the ballots stamped with the voter's race??

[TxBec]

oops! see #9.

[raygun]

I'm unclear how this is of greater importance than:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/sept11_uranium020911.html

[ovrtaxt]

You may find this interesting.

http://www.votescam.com

[Ax]

My sides are still sore from laughing. About 30 minutes ago, I was at a Dunkin' Donuts in Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County. A pickup was parked next to my car. It bore a streamer high up on the rear window, saying: Vote Republican - It's Easier Than Thinking." The Dim-o-crats in south Florida have been thoroughly discredit in the eyes of the world and this clown makes fun of US?

[Charlotte Corday]

What it does show is the extremely high value of a black third party candidate. Al Sharpton would without a doubt be the GOP's biggest asset.

[Dallas]

GO RENO....

Sorry, but I'm enjoying her making a fool of herself. I didn't want it to end this soon...

[DB]

Think about this, the votes were selected and counted electronically. There are no "chads" to interpret. In fact there isn't even a direct physical record of the actual vote. It was a touch screen fingerprint…

They're going to have a good time "recounting" this election…

[chainsaw]

"You guys have NO idea what a mess this has been," state election monitor Mike Lindsey wrote his Tallahassee bosses in a pre-dawn e-mail Wednesday from Broward County. "The mess was the result of no planning, poor leadership, lack of 'process ownership' and passing the buck."

Tell me something that we didn't know before election day.

[Greeklawyer]

They have invented systems on how to cheet with these systems:

1. ballot cartridges go missing (memory device that stores the votes)

2. Precincts with you candidate report last to allow for "adjustments"

3. Absentee ballots.

4. Machines in opposition precincts that do not record anything.

5. Do not tell the public the beakdown of each INDIVIDUAL ballot cartridge

[Lil'freeper]

The problem is not the machines, it's the people using them.

[Greeklawyer]

Just popped over to the votescam.com website. What they wrote about "fixing" the electronic voting machine software fits with all the "mistakes" and missing machines in florida. There should be a law requiring all publicly used voting machines to have their inner workings available for public scrutiny. software, diagnostic routines etc.