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To: jackbill; Lucius Cornelius Sulla; sport; matrix; Ron in Acreage; Elkiejg; alloysteel; ...
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.

5 posted on 09/12/2002 7:44:41 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
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.
10 posted on 09/12/2002 8:10:08 PM PDT by sport
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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!
15 posted on 09/12/2002 8:21:54 PM PDT by Truth Addict
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The democrat held counties of Broward and Miami-Dade will never get a voting system that can't be corrupted. The Democrats depend on a corruptible system to try to steal the elections by saying it is all the republicans fault even though each Supervisor of Elections has the power to run Elections the way they see fit. There is a computer system here in Brevard but you still fill out the paper ballot. The computer then reads your ballot and tallies the vote. If however the computer breaks down you could count the ballots by hand.

Broward and Miami-Dade intentionally went to the touch screen voting because there is no hard copy record of voting and computer media are easily corrupted even from a distance. They are having the problems they want to have. If either county Supervisor of Elections wants to refute me then change your method of voting to the one Brevard County has.

Ravenstar
22 posted on 09/12/2002 8:37:09 PM PDT by Ravenstar
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I voted in Royal Palm Beach, 13 miles west of El Rushbo. Had no problem whatsoever. Got to my NEW polling place at 1:30 pm. I was the only person there beside the 3 poll workers. One was half asleep in a chair, he was about 80yrs old. The other 2 were women working on the crossword puzzle in the Palm Beach Putz newspaper. Took a whole 3 minutes to vote. Never even saw the new voting machine before election day. My 3yr old could figure it out.
23 posted on 09/12/2002 8:40:34 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage
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I am a bona fide senior citizen- grandmother of 8- and deliberately did NOT get a demonstration of the new touch screen system. I had absolutely no problems following the instructions on the screen, voted without any hesitations in less than 3 minutes and was on my way.
Poll workers were prepared, courteous, knowledgeable. Ballot was easy to read and simple to use. I heard similar stories all day, from voters of all ages.
And my Supervisor of Elections is a Democrat- who does a professional nonpartisan job every election. We had no problems counting or reporting- it was smooth as silk.

65 of our 67 Counties got it right. Florida's election was chaotic only in Dade & Broward- just like in 2000.
Not all Florida seniors are incompetent or imbeciles- at least not in SW Florida, we're not. Send the reporters over here to talk to elderly voters who don't whine.
27 posted on 09/12/2002 9:04:25 PM PDT by Goldwater Girl
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30 posted on 09/13/2002 5:18:41 AM PDT by Joe Brower
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