FLORIDA REPUBLICAN VOTER COMMENT THREAD (Vanity)

Sept. 12, 2002

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Florida Republicans, share your election day stories with the army of journalists covering the "plague" of Fla. election problems. Let visiting pundits know what Florida Republicans have to say about this latest attempt to blame Dem. incompetence and fraud on our Governor and Republicans.

They wouldn't knowingly choose to disenfranchise Florida Republicans, thus mischaracterizing last Tuesday's Florida state primary election, would they?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I had no problem voting in Lee County. A poll worker met us at the door, answered all questions, carefully instructed us on using the new machines. Only one member of our group of ~ eight chose not to listen to the instructions...a senior Dem. woman who said she "couldn't be bothered to listen" and went straight to the voting machine. Simple. I pressed one wrong button...pressed it again and, wow, erased my mistake. My neighbor asked a poll worker for help once. We were finished in minutes...including carefully checking over our final votes before pushing the big VOTE button to lock in our ballots.

Democrats will always have problems with elections because they are instructed to look for problems. Life's funny like that. The more you look for trouble, the more likely you are to find it. Even a police car parked a mile away can be a reason to sue.

Democrats think that there could be such a thing as a "perfect" election. There couldn't, of course, human error's always present to some degree in the real world. Being prepared, learning about the candidates and issues, asking questions when you don't know and carefully following directions is a voter's responsibility.

People voted in Zimbabwe recently at the point of a gun, knowing their vote would most likely be tossed by a crooked leader...they valued the right to vote enough to risk their lives.

Dem. election "fraud" would not be possible without the help of the Dem. press accomplices.

Comments appreciated and will be forwarded to the appropriate pols, pundits, pups and peacocks.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Election day was swell for me...how about you?

[summer]

No problems at all with voters I spoke with in SW FL.

[jackbill]

The Republicans in Florida - and throughout the United States - should be screaming from the rooftops that the Gov. of Florida doesn't run the elections in Florida. The Sec. of State doesn't run the elections in Florida. The county Supervisor of Elections of each individual county runs the elections in Florida. And in the two counties with the most problems in Florida have DemocRAT Supervisors of Elections.

Is that such a hard message to get out?

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

We have. The press knows who's responsible. They have their own agenda. Fair and balanced has nothing to do with it. Seriously.

Please post any comments about primary day. Forwarding to the appropriate people. Florida Republicans are being ignored again by the Florida Rat press.

This is not a ping list.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

No problems here, either. Judging by this weeks newsmedia, you'd think that every county and all Floridians were crooked and incompetent...not just the Reno, McBride supporters (I'll delete that before mailing). (^:

[mysonsfuture]

Off point here. But how did Charlie Crist win so easily for Attorney general? Whats his stategy, to run for every elective office at least once? Thought Burt was more qualified.

[walrus954]

I urge all of you to call the Reno camp and tell them to keep going and your (or your friend's) problems at the polls. Not only is she much less of a threat to Jeb, it is in our best interest to KEEP THE DEMS FIGHTING! Janet Reno's office number is 305-760-2002

[Humal]

I had no problems voting on computer machines in Roseland, Florida (near Vero Beach). Did have a quick "how to" lesson, since the machines were new, but no trouble after that. No complaints from the other people at the voting place while I was there.

The comments by a person being interviewed on T.V. I thought was right on target. He said if people were too dumb to take a stick and punch a hole in a piece of paper, how could they handle computers.

Also, on the 2000 fiasco, it seems that the counties with the computers had the most trouble with the voting machines. These were in the northern part of the state, I believe. Does anyone else remember this?

[sport]

When I went to vote at my precient, there was a democrat that was running for the schoolboard standing outside the door. As I got nearer to the entrance, I saw that there was a sign taped to the building which read,"Help stop vote fraud".

I asked the candidate, "See that sign?" He replied with a smile,that he did.

I then told him, "To do that they would have to do away with the democrat political party."

He did not respond. No longer smiling, he walked away.

[woofie]

I had no problem ...maybe because I live in New Mexico

[lucky7]

Went well for me and my wife, and the rest of Marion County, it's those dumb carpet baggers that cannot fill in the little circle, and vote.(That live in South Florida)

[ErnBatavia]

Is that such a hard message to get out?

Time to do it the old fashioned way....write a "Letter to the Editor", and put a 'stinger' (eye-catcher) in it....you'll get published. I'm amazed that I became a regular 'publishee' even in the far left Los Angeles Times.....and watch your spelling and grammar; this is series business!!

[JulieRNR21]

I voted absentee ballot so had to fill in those little ovals....I had a swell time!

[Truth Addict]

I voted in east Orange county and had no problems, but was at a new precint location due to re-drawing the lines. My wife reported she heard a woman complaining that moving the polling place was some kind of conspiracy to make it harder to vote, and the poll worker was dutifully listening to her complaints and trying to explain the reasons, to no avail.

There were press reports of many ballot cards having problems going through the readers with jamming, and cards tearing (we use paper ballots with the "fill in the arrow" marks). When mine went through fine, the poll worker expressed surprise that it worked, so they must have had some problems. At least there is a paper record that can be manually counted if the machine fails to read it.

I think the problems in Dade and Palm Beach (again) are the direct result of the incompetence of the supervisors of elections, and the failure to properly train poll workers. Attempts to tamper with the results using new equipment they haven't fully figured out may explain some of the problems as well. One thing is clear: it's not Jeb Bush's fault, or Jim Smith's, or the Republican party; the problem counties are all controlled by Rats!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Good one, sport. Did you report this actual case of lawbreaking? We need to hold them accountable...for the sake of our state's future, our sanity and their endangered souls. The Dem. candidate was illegally campaigning in front of a "Stop Voter Fraud" sign? LOL! Was this a Dem. precinct?

Did you have or witness any problems using the new machines?

[jackbill]

Time to do it the old fashioned way....write a "Letter to the Editor", and put a 'stinger' (eye-catcher) in it....you'll get published. I'm amazed that I became a regular 'publishee' even in the far left Los Angeles Times.....and watch your spelling and grammar; this is series business!!

I've had a number of "Letters to the Editor" published - over two dozen - including the NY Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, Washington Times and several other, smaller newspapers. Maybe I'll take a shot at the Florida papers. Being from Maryland, I can fake a southern accent.

[Brasil]

This is mostly off topic but FOX NEWS had a clip of a polling place and a young man was wearing a T-shirt that said "I support BUSH" (or something to that effect.) Where I vote, it is forbidden to wear any political message or to do any campaigning with 100 feet of the polling place.

[JulieRNR21]

I urge all of you to call the Reno camp and tell them to keep going and your (or your friend's) problems at the polls. Not only is she much less of a threat to Jeb, it is in our best interest to KEEP THE DEMS FIGHTING! Janet Reno's office number is 305-760-2002

Your suggestion is worth repeating to other FL Freepers!

[oldfashionedvalues]

At my precinct in Tallahassee, aside from the fact that they looked at me "funny" - "Oh, Republican" (no too many of us here), the workers all smiled and were very friendly. Showed ID, signed, voted (#299), all in maybe five minutes. The kids were given stickers, everyone said bye. An easy, pleasant, experience as far as voting is concerned.
I just have to believe that the bitterness of 2000 is still strong in some parts of this state, and, there will always be chaos down south so as to put doubt into any election. Especially with the dislike for Jeb and President Bush by the rats. Unless Jeb in November, and President Bush in 2004, win by a couple of hundred thousand votes, I think there will be a controversy in southern Florida. ofv