Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION

I got this email today! Keep your eyes open y'all!



>Subject: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:00:07 -0400
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>Please read the message below and check your ballot before you leave the
>voting booth!
>

>Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She voted
>straight Democratic. When she did the final check, lo and behold every vote
>was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted for
>Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres.
>
>She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected. She
>called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all her
>information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a similar
>incident and that they are looking into it.
>
>So check before you leave the polling booth, and if anything is wrong, get
>it corrected immediately. Report any irregularities to your local Democratic
>headquarters.
>
>Make sure you pass this along to your friends ... hopefully this is all over
>the airwaves by tomorrow ...

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yeah like 4 or 5 states do vote early....Texas starts and I believe Florida has started

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I never heard of that! How odd.

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No I think Texas has started as well

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my dad vote early and voted for the president

I don't recall any other presidential election where early voting was offered. I'm sure this has something to do with Florida's voting history.

We voted via absentee ballot, but my parents voted today and said they had to wait over an hour in line to reach the polling stations. Most, in Florida, seem to be utilizing this early voting system.

I voted early in Houston in 2000. Not recalling whether or not I did (or could have) in 1996 and 1992.

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If they have a week to vote, why is everyone going on the same day? Kind of defeats the purpose, no?

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I just don't trust using computers. Would be sooooo easy to rig.

I just want a fair election. Hell, even if Bush wins--as long as it is truly fair, I could somehow live with that. I just want to believe I will live where the country feels that their President was elected fairly.

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hahah ballots that actually count? I didnt think those happened anymore?

Florida's computers have already crashed a few times and lost countless votes! Yes absentee ballots "should" count. But after the 2000 election we learned that a chad of any kind when it was for Gore in florida didnt count...so who knows what does and doesnt count anymore!

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Spreading voting out over more days just opens up more opportunities for fraud.

What states are doing it, again?

plum of course florida is doing it so there can be no way bush cant loose! :-P

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NC has early voting too. My dad went last week.

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