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It's killing the Dems because they aren't smart enough to beat the computerized system yet. The public schools don't have enough teen aged computer wizards to cheat for the Dems. The article said,"But the county would need more than 2,000 additional machines to allow each voter to spend the 13 minutes it takes to read the 11-page ballot from start to finish." I just got back from casting my vote in Pinellas county and it took me three minutes because I took my notes in with me. Anyone who waits to get in the voting booth to read the amendments deserves a long wait.

The Dems are worried because their strength is in last minute busing of voters from precinct to precinct, etc, fraudulent voting. They are at a disadvantage if they have to wait long times to vote. All those liberal causes stuck all over the ballot are going to cause long voting times.

But there were several warnings from our supervisor (a Democrat, a rare good one) that there would be long waits at the polls for this reason, and that is why they sent out sample ballots to EVERY voter in FL, something I never got in NY. There is no excuse for not going in prepared.

I also got a mailing from Bush last month asking me to vote by mail-in. They are well prepared. The Demos concentrate on last minute voting drives, the Repubs on absentee ballots. And this long ballot will favor the Repubs -their votes will all be in already.

It's killing the Dems because they aren't smart enough to beat the computerized system yet.

Give them time to get a crooked software engineer in place. It will happen. Mark my words.

It's killing the Dems because they aren't smart enough to beat the computerized system yet. The public schools don't have enough teen aged computer wizards to cheat for the Dems. The article said,"But the county would need more than 2,000 additional machines to allow each voter to spend the 13 minutes it takes to read the 11-page ballot from start to finish." I just got back from casting my vote in Pinellas county and it took me three minutes because I took my notes in with me. Anyone who waits to get in the voting booth to read the amendments deserves a long wait.

Amen. In California the ballots are ridiculously long in most years because of all the referenda, but each county sends out detailed sample ballots well before the first absentee ballots are mailed.

I agree that the Rats are protesting because long waiting times prevents multiple voting. That's the "secret sauce" they have used for years in South Florida. It's still the easiest way to stuff ballot boxes. Voter are never purged from the rolls when they die or move, and the Rats simply have a caravan of people going from polling place to polling place voting in the names of these people.

I like the way they do elections in Canada. I read that they have paper ballots, but there are no more than about 200 voters in each precinct and the votes are counted on the spot after the polls close, with watchers from all parties present for the counting. Neighborhood election workers and poll watchers know when a stranger is trying to vote for someone else, and they know when someone has just moved in and when they are lying. There is almost no vote fraud in Canada.

[It's killing the Dems because they aren't smart enough to beat the computerized system yet]

Well, the fact they are questioning it makes it seems so - but they will have their 'fixers' in place by 2004.

Personally, I like the idea of paper ballots. I like the idea there will be something to look at and recount. I am not comfortable with my vote being cast into the nether world of computers where anything can and will happen to it.

My age talking --maybe. But what recourse would someone have if this happened.

I voted earlier in the week in Miami-Dade county. It took me 5 minutes to complete the ballot (yes I timed it) and I did read through the amendments to make sure they were worded the same as my notes (hey, this is Dade ya know).

From start to finish it took me maybe 10 minutes to vote. And oh yea, BTW, some of you might have heard how the democrats are claiming the GOP is disenfranchising black voters by asking them for two id's before voting. Well guess what? I was asked to present 2 ID's before I could vote. But since I'm a white female of no particular ethnic group, that's ok.