Posted on 09/11/2002 8:04:25 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
On an unrelated note, Florida required a photo-ID, and so far thare have been no complaints. Let's see the rest of the country catch up to this.
IMHO, the only reason there were any irregularities is because the Dims hadn't figured out how to rig the results.
Georgia will use electronics in our November general election (the demo unit didn't work in our primary).
When I voted in the priamry and runoff (yesterday) in Georgia, we had to show photo-id. That I support wholeheartedly. Electronics without some backup/redundancy/verification is something else.
I've no doubt Democrats purposely screwed this up so they could blame the whole fiasco on Jeb Bush.
Once the Democrats sort out who their candidate will be, watch the whole machine turn on Jeb and use this as a campaign issue.
This is a preview to November and eventually to 2004. Unless the state courts get tough and tell the Democrats to go pound sand, watch for this rerun to appear in an election near you.
Gore almost successfully used the liberal SCOFLA to rewrite the state's election statutes to his benefit. Why not try it in a dozen or more other states?
They have both the computer touch screen and the optical scanners. My mother-in-law runs a voting precinct in Jacksonville. They have the "fill in the dot" optical scanners there. I emailed her telling her I had read about the mess yesterday and asked her how it went at her precinct. Here is what she said:
"Wasn't that a mess? We only had 2 problems with our scanner. One ballot had a little crinkle in it and wouldn't go through. Another ballot had been torn at the corner when the lady tore it from the stub. It wasn't the voters, it was the old workers. They are ancient and can't hear or see. *****(marked out her son's name that lives in Tampa) said the poll worker that he had was 87 years old. The vote are still not completed. The Governor made it mandantory that we stay open until 9, but some closed anyway. I guess we will have a good pay check. We had 10 hours of training at the Jr. college to do that scanner. Some of the polls waited for someone to come start theirs for them. Is that dumb? Why did they give us the classes."
My mother-in-law has been working at her precinct for 30years. I tell ya, she has some wild stories to tell.
Because the SCOTUS ruled that only the legislatures have the power to make the laws determining how electors are selected. Also, there is a federal law passed after the 1876 presidential election, that requires the states to use the procedures their legislatures have in place on election day to choose electors. SCOFLA (isn't that a descriptive acronym) was violating this federal law in two ways. First, it was usurping the plenary powers of the state legislature to determine how electors are selected; second, it was changing the law after the deadline for making changes in the law. SCOFLA claimed it was interpreting the Florida Constitution, but in the process it was violating both federal statutes and the US Constitution.
The Computers are probably set to default to a straight ticket Dimocrat vote!
I'm more worried about the flaky people running the elections.
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