[FreePaul]

You can't be "too stupid" to vote Democrat.

[cardinal4]

There is certainly a pattern.....

[Piquaboy]

Even though the Democrats set everything up for the voting process and did not tell a lot of people how to turn the machines on, they are going to blame this fiasco on the Governor. Go Figure!

[aberaussie]

"It is a time-honored tradition, perhaps refined by the Daley machine of Chicago, to hold vote counts until the last minute. This way, the (political) machine could figure out just how many votes it needed to come up with to close the gap and ‘win.´ "

So the problem is not that south Floridians are too stupid to vote properly, the problem is that the dems are having a little trouble figuring out how to defraud the new system??

[Welsh Rabbit]

Following the advice of their editor, the reporters seized the evidence and took the illegal ballots to Janet Reno who promptly had the JOURNALISTS arrested, rather than to investigate how a candidate had preprinted ballots in his possession!

I didn't think it possible, I thought I had heard it all, but she has managed to outrage me again. It makes me so angry that she will never have to pay for her countless miscarriages of justice.

[Snowy]

Before the next election, we should send piles of calculators down to the three Florida counties that have trouble counting....

[NEPA]

The Colliers observed, "When we saw in this past primary that McBride was leading Reno by 100,000 votes statewide, with 60 percent of precincts reporting, and Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach not reporting even hours after the close of balloting, and after almost every other county had reported, we knew exactly what was happening.

The Colliers are dead ('90 & '98), how did they observe anything? Am I misreading something?

[adam stevens]

Yes

[mondonico]

Have you seen the new Florida Quarter?

Actually, it's a nickel--you just count it five times.

[John Jorsett]

Very interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

[spodefly]

TSTV = Too Stupid To Vote.

[TexasCajun]

What's next?

Finger Puppets??? Geezzzz...

[alloysteel]

Supervisors of elections in the counties in question have had entirely too much discretion for years, and seem to be either unwilling or unable to abide by the stated rules, choosing instead to interpret them to the advantage of the political party of their personal bias, or else they fail to understand the simplest part of the requirements. One hesitates to deny local autonomy in these cases, but clearly, malfeasance and sheer incompetence have dominated their actions.

One of the beneficiaries of this policy of malign neglect was a former Congressman and impeached judge, Alcee Hastings, who has never, to the best of anyone's recollection, met up with any sort of political corruptions he did not immediately embrace. Not content to be merely an outspoken member of the Black Caucus, and an avowed Marxist, he also believes the problem is entirely the fault of the Republican Governor and Legislature of Florida, not just as a political posture, but as an article of faith. The question is, How? There are not that many Republican operatives in either Palm Beach or Miami-Dade county government, and they surely don't have the keys to the back rooms there. Systems that work perfectly well elsewhere, somehow fail in those jurisdictions. Truth is, there is no incentive for WANTING the unbiased polling of the public to be effectively recorded, as this would end the domination by the very small clique of power brokers in those localities. Accountability is such a ß¡+ç#.

[Paul Atreides]

[montag813]

instead of "chad build-up" we now have "smudge build-up" on the Touch Screen machines. Of course, this seems to occur only in Democratic strongholds in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Well, Democrats ARE more slimy.

[Publius6961]

My guess is about 40% of voters everywhere are too stupid to vote.
Bottom of the gene pool material with zero knowledge of current events or the concept of cause-effect.

[cthusker77]

"decades of ballot box stuffing cannot keep up with voter rejection of Democrat candidates."

Democrats rejected?? Oh, my lord! Can it be? (sarcastic tone on afore mentioned, of course) The truth is just too horrible for the dems to accept, so they have to fabricate yet another conspiracy. This "victim" thing is really, really grating on me now. I think I'll drop dead in shock if I ever hear them admit to their own mistakes. No worries though. I'm sure I'll die a natural death before that ever happens. Snowflakes in hell will happen before that...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Very good summary ....

Let's see if this will show up on the "national" press corpse in TV and the weekly magazines ...

/sarcasm off

[Redleg Duke]

It doesn't matter if the Democratic poll workers were illiterate and downright stupid, just as long as they properly represented diversity!

[PetroniDE]

Here is an idea. Take a few heavy, well populated GOP precincts/counties. DO NOT, REPEAT, DO NOT have those precincts report their totals, until Miami and Broward report theirs.