Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
#0Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:38pm
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
>
>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 ...
"It never bothered me that she called me a c*nt, it bothered me that I answered to it!" Carol Channing about Ethel Merman filming an episode of "The Love Boat"
#1re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:43pm"Voted early"? WTF?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#2re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:45pmyeah like 4 or 5 states do vote early....Texas starts and I believe Florida has started
"It never bothered me that she called me a c*nt, it bothered me that I answered to it!" Carol Channing about Ethel Merman filming an episode of "The Love Boat"
#4re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:45pmI never heard of that! How odd.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
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#5re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:45pmIn Florida, we began early voting last week. Is this only the case for some states?
#6re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:46pmNo I think Texas has started as well
"It never bothered me that she called me a c*nt, it bothered me that I answered to it!" Carol Channing about Ethel Merman filming an episode of "The Love Boat"
#7re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:46pmI've lived in three states and have never had the option to vote on any day but Election Day.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#8re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:47pmmy dad vote early and voted for the president
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#10re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:51pm
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.
#11re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:55pmBecause in FLorida they are already experiencing computer problems....apparently it keeps going offline....god knows how many votes have been lost already
"It never bothered me that she called me a c*nt, it bothered me that I answered to it!" Carol Channing about Ethel Merman filming an episode of "The Love Boat"
#12re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:56pmI voted early in Houston in 2000. Not recalling whether or not I did (or could have) in 1996 and 1992.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#13re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 3:59pmMy father voted today in Florida. It was a hassle to do it, though he said.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#14re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:00pmIf they have a week to vote, why is everyone going on the same day? Kind of defeats the purpose, no?
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:04pm
It has been like this everyday. We have friends who went last week and said it was incredibly crowded.
Yes, they have been having a lot of problems with the electronic voting machines. We anticipated this, which is why we did the absentee ballot. I'm concerned.... at least we know that Kerry has two votes that SHOULD count.
#16re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:08pm
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.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#17re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:09pmYeah? And I want chocolate air. Neither are gonna happen.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#18re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:09pm
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!
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:11pm
ballots are rarely counted.
It's all about the exit polls, which is wrong, but protected by the first amendment.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#20re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:11pm
Spreading voting out over more days just opens up more opportunities for fraud.
What states are doing it, again?
#21re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:12pmYum, chocolate air.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#22re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:12pmplum of course florida is doing it so there can be no way bush cant loose! :-P
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
#23re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:24pmWe could always move next to a chocolate factory and get chocolate air!! At least, I know that to be true of bread and coffee factories.
Millie42
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#24re: Voting booth issues - PAY ATTENTION
Posted: 10/26/04 at 4:41pmNC has early voting too. My dad went last week.
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