Democracy is a simple system, so simple that elections were successfully handled in Athens before the time of Christ.
In its simplicity is its nobility of one-man one vote.
Almost as old as Democracy is vote fraud, former President Jimmy Carter has judged hundred of elections around the world and was quoted as saying "I've never seen any type of fraud that I didn't see in Georgia first.
" So let us be clear about this concept, there are never any accidents in democracy there are never any mistakes at polling places.
Elections are handled successfully all over the third world, so the idea that the Ohio Secretary of State doesn't know how many voting machines to send to black precincts in Cleveland is obscene.
We Americans have a hole in our Constitution a loophole and perhaps a fatal flaw.
Our elections are constitutionally mandated the sole propriety of the states.
This allows a Kenneth Blackwell of Ohio to invalidate voter registrations because the paper wasn't of the correct weight.
Or a Katherine Harris to allow Republican officials to use a room in Tallahassee to correct Republican absentee ballots.
The Federal government is powerless save court action to change any state election policy.
When the party in power in Washington approves of the shenanigans anything goes.
Why wouldn't they? This is how they gained power, the Supreme Court decision that placed Bush on the throne despite what the Constitution said carried their caveat of just this once.
Ever since that decision the world has turned upside down, exit polling used coast to coast are now routinely wrong.
Politicians in safe democratic seats ahead in the poles lose.
The case of Max Cleland is often pointed out because of the Republicans morphing his photo into Osama Bin Laden.
On the eve of the election Cleland was ahead in the polls, the results were peculiar Cleland polled less votes in the general election in some communities than he received in the primary.
How can that be? How can a Democrat running against another Democrat split the vote and then not get even one vote more in the general election? Then with a sudden last minute sudden charge of six thousand votes and Saxby Chambiss wins the election.
There are cases such as Mark Foley were exceptions are understandable, if he were to get less votes in the general election than the primary no one would question the outcome.
But Cleland was popular he had no negatives, no scandals but in the brave new world the unusual is the norm.
In Butler County Ohio a Democrat running for State Supreme Court received five thousand more votes than the Kerry Edwards ticket.
That happens in a world turned upside down where grass eats cows and the rain falls up.
In Montgomery County, two precincts recorded a combined undervote of almost 6,000.
This is to say that that many people waited to vote but, when their turn came, had no opinion on who should be the president, voting only for lesser offices.
In these two precincts alone, that number represents an undervote of 25 percent, in a county where undervoting averages out at just 2 percent.
Democratic precincts had 75 percent more under- votes than Republican ones.
In Franklin County, a computerized voting machine recorded a total of 4,258 votes for Bush and 260 votes for Kerry.
In that precinct, however, there are only 800 registered voters, of whom 638 showed up.
Once the "glitch" had been identified, the president had to be content with 3,893 fewer votes than the computer had awarded him.
In Miami County a shining example of patriotism 98.
5% of registered voters came to vote, why it would bring a tear to Stalin's eye.
Even after the great display of near 100% turn out they still had 19,000 extra votes for Bush.
They say oops and blush they lock down court houses to count in secret but the most incriminating fact is that not one discrepancy went in Kerry's favor a statistical impossibility.
The Gallup poll trumpets the public is confident with election outcomes they view paper ballots and electronic ballots equally.
This is akin to saying passengers on the Titanic equally satisfied regardless of their stateroom accommodations.
Figures don't lie but liars figure, when you look at the numbers in the poll.
How confident are you that, across the country, that the votes will be accurately cast and counted in this years election? 8% had no confidence, 17% not to confidant 47% were somewhat confident.
A spectrum from no faith to some faith accounts for 72% of the electorate.
How can you call it democracy when almost three out of four voters have questions about the validity? Three out of four have questions, well then who believes? What trusting souls have such unquestioning faith? 91% of Republican voters in the poll expressed, 41% very confident and 50% somewhat confident.
Trusting aren't they? I guess the batter never looks back at the umpire and says that was a strike.
Bush said last Saturday he felt confident the Republicans would maintain control of Congress and normally if Bush said it I would assume it's a lie.
Carl Rove expressed similar optimisms saying he was watching the polls and thought they would maintain control.
Listen to what these two men said; did they say they would win the elections? 80% of voters will vote on a touch screen, the stories about these machines are as plentiful as they are varied and almost as numerous as Republican scandals.
In the old days with the mechanical lever machines the chances of your vote being discarded was .
07 With a paper ballot it jumps to 2% that doesn't sound like much but that's 20 votes per thousand verses less than one vote.
If your black or another minority it jumps again to 4% in Florida it was 14.
4% verses 1.
6% for whites.
In Florida 115 black voters must vote to equal 100 votes while for whites the number is 102.
In a hypothetical county of 100,000 voters equally divided populations white & black for the black voters to be equally represented would require and additional 7,500 votes to prevail! That isn't democracy! What are the numbers for computerized voting?N/A are you surprised? We have at our disposal this awesome technology everything is computerized.
We can launch computer guided cruise missiles that fly unaided 700 miles and hit with in three feet of the target Have you ever gone to the grocery store with your buggy loaded to the gunnels and have it ring up $22.
50? Have you ever turned on your TV and hit the channel 4 button and channel 27 come on? So you hit the 4 button again and again 27 comes on again.
No you haven't because it is simple technology it's a counting machine like a turnstile.
We fret and complain about patriot acts and national ID cards yet we tolerate utter nonsense! Speed is great when You're ordering a hamburger but when ordering a government safe is not only the best way it's the only way.
There is nothing I would like to see more than Republicans bounced out of office but it won't happen and I say this wanting to be wrong.
But if the Democratic candidate isn't ahead by at least 15% he or she probably won't win, if Republicans control your state government make it 20%.
If the margin is less than 10% and Republicans control the electoral levers the Democrat will lose.
The Uniter is the destroyer if you think you are going to see free and fair elections next Tuesday you might as well right in the name Santa Claus
In its simplicity is its nobility of one-man one vote.
Almost as old as Democracy is vote fraud, former President Jimmy Carter has judged hundred of elections around the world and was quoted as saying "I've never seen any type of fraud that I didn't see in Georgia first.
" So let us be clear about this concept, there are never any accidents in democracy there are never any mistakes at polling places.
Elections are handled successfully all over the third world, so the idea that the Ohio Secretary of State doesn't know how many voting machines to send to black precincts in Cleveland is obscene.
We Americans have a hole in our Constitution a loophole and perhaps a fatal flaw.
Our elections are constitutionally mandated the sole propriety of the states.
This allows a Kenneth Blackwell of Ohio to invalidate voter registrations because the paper wasn't of the correct weight.
Or a Katherine Harris to allow Republican officials to use a room in Tallahassee to correct Republican absentee ballots.
The Federal government is powerless save court action to change any state election policy.
When the party in power in Washington approves of the shenanigans anything goes.
Why wouldn't they? This is how they gained power, the Supreme Court decision that placed Bush on the throne despite what the Constitution said carried their caveat of just this once.
Ever since that decision the world has turned upside down, exit polling used coast to coast are now routinely wrong.
Politicians in safe democratic seats ahead in the poles lose.
The case of Max Cleland is often pointed out because of the Republicans morphing his photo into Osama Bin Laden.
On the eve of the election Cleland was ahead in the polls, the results were peculiar Cleland polled less votes in the general election in some communities than he received in the primary.
How can that be? How can a Democrat running against another Democrat split the vote and then not get even one vote more in the general election? Then with a sudden last minute sudden charge of six thousand votes and Saxby Chambiss wins the election.
There are cases such as Mark Foley were exceptions are understandable, if he were to get less votes in the general election than the primary no one would question the outcome.
But Cleland was popular he had no negatives, no scandals but in the brave new world the unusual is the norm.
In Butler County Ohio a Democrat running for State Supreme Court received five thousand more votes than the Kerry Edwards ticket.
That happens in a world turned upside down where grass eats cows and the rain falls up.
In Montgomery County, two precincts recorded a combined undervote of almost 6,000.
This is to say that that many people waited to vote but, when their turn came, had no opinion on who should be the president, voting only for lesser offices.
In these two precincts alone, that number represents an undervote of 25 percent, in a county where undervoting averages out at just 2 percent.
Democratic precincts had 75 percent more under- votes than Republican ones.
In Franklin County, a computerized voting machine recorded a total of 4,258 votes for Bush and 260 votes for Kerry.
In that precinct, however, there are only 800 registered voters, of whom 638 showed up.
Once the "glitch" had been identified, the president had to be content with 3,893 fewer votes than the computer had awarded him.
In Miami County a shining example of patriotism 98.
5% of registered voters came to vote, why it would bring a tear to Stalin's eye.
Even after the great display of near 100% turn out they still had 19,000 extra votes for Bush.
They say oops and blush they lock down court houses to count in secret but the most incriminating fact is that not one discrepancy went in Kerry's favor a statistical impossibility.
The Gallup poll trumpets the public is confident with election outcomes they view paper ballots and electronic ballots equally.
This is akin to saying passengers on the Titanic equally satisfied regardless of their stateroom accommodations.
Figures don't lie but liars figure, when you look at the numbers in the poll.
How confident are you that, across the country, that the votes will be accurately cast and counted in this years election? 8% had no confidence, 17% not to confidant 47% were somewhat confident.
A spectrum from no faith to some faith accounts for 72% of the electorate.
How can you call it democracy when almost three out of four voters have questions about the validity? Three out of four have questions, well then who believes? What trusting souls have such unquestioning faith? 91% of Republican voters in the poll expressed, 41% very confident and 50% somewhat confident.
Trusting aren't they? I guess the batter never looks back at the umpire and says that was a strike.
Bush said last Saturday he felt confident the Republicans would maintain control of Congress and normally if Bush said it I would assume it's a lie.
Carl Rove expressed similar optimisms saying he was watching the polls and thought they would maintain control.
Listen to what these two men said; did they say they would win the elections? 80% of voters will vote on a touch screen, the stories about these machines are as plentiful as they are varied and almost as numerous as Republican scandals.
In the old days with the mechanical lever machines the chances of your vote being discarded was .
07 With a paper ballot it jumps to 2% that doesn't sound like much but that's 20 votes per thousand verses less than one vote.
If your black or another minority it jumps again to 4% in Florida it was 14.
4% verses 1.
6% for whites.
In Florida 115 black voters must vote to equal 100 votes while for whites the number is 102.
In a hypothetical county of 100,000 voters equally divided populations white & black for the black voters to be equally represented would require and additional 7,500 votes to prevail! That isn't democracy! What are the numbers for computerized voting?N/A are you surprised? We have at our disposal this awesome technology everything is computerized.
We can launch computer guided cruise missiles that fly unaided 700 miles and hit with in three feet of the target Have you ever gone to the grocery store with your buggy loaded to the gunnels and have it ring up $22.
50? Have you ever turned on your TV and hit the channel 4 button and channel 27 come on? So you hit the 4 button again and again 27 comes on again.
No you haven't because it is simple technology it's a counting machine like a turnstile.
We fret and complain about patriot acts and national ID cards yet we tolerate utter nonsense! Speed is great when You're ordering a hamburger but when ordering a government safe is not only the best way it's the only way.
There is nothing I would like to see more than Republicans bounced out of office but it won't happen and I say this wanting to be wrong.
But if the Democratic candidate isn't ahead by at least 15% he or she probably won't win, if Republicans control your state government make it 20%.
If the margin is less than 10% and Republicans control the electoral levers the Democrat will lose.
The Uniter is the destroyer if you think you are going to see free and fair elections next Tuesday you might as well right in the name Santa Claus
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