One-Man Vote Recount in Ohio
Apparently the barnacles attached to John Kerry's campaign computers are still sending out the odd missive now and then. Yesterday, people reported receiving this nugget:
NOTE TO KERRY SUPPORTERS: You were not the only people standing in line to vote. I voted. For George W. Bush. Yes, I live in a blue neighborhood in a blue county in Ohio with a Domestic Partner Registry and an art theater and a yoga studio and friggin' drum circle night every other full moon and a Kerry sign on every damn yard but mine. But I worked and donated and volunteered and displayed my Bush yard sign (which was stolen) and wrote letters and stood in line in the rain for an hour to vote for Bush. And I flipped over my punch card and scraped off every damn chad that looked even a little pregnant. And I waited and watched as the poll worker dropped my vote -- for Bush -- into the lockbox.
Did I mention that I voted for Bush? In Ohio? And that no one did an exit poll where I voted? So don't tell me the exit polls were proof that Kerry just had to have gotten more votes.
Same rain, same line, same ballot, same machines...so how did my vote go for Bush? 'Cause I punched the card that way, dumbass.
Here's a idea for the Dems. Next time around, nominate someone good. Maybe the machines will work correctly then.
UPDATE: As someone who routinely gets stuck in the slowest line at the grocery but waits nonetheless, I'm not sure how "being discouraged by long lines" equals disenfranchisement. Still, in Cuyahoga County, where 448,486 people voted for Kerry (a 66 percent majority), I can only blame the Democrats in front of me for the long lines.
I want every vote counted because Americans have to know that the votes they stood in line for, fought for, and strived so hard to cast in an election, are counted.
NOTE TO KERRY SUPPORTERS: You were not the only people standing in line to vote. I voted. For George W. Bush. Yes, I live in a blue neighborhood in a blue county in Ohio with a Domestic Partner Registry and an art theater and a yoga studio and friggin' drum circle night every other full moon and a Kerry sign on every damn yard but mine. But I worked and donated and volunteered and displayed my Bush yard sign (which was stolen) and wrote letters and stood in line in the rain for an hour to vote for Bush. And I flipped over my punch card and scraped off every damn chad that looked even a little pregnant. And I waited and watched as the poll worker dropped my vote -- for Bush -- into the lockbox.
Did I mention that I voted for Bush? In Ohio? And that no one did an exit poll where I voted? So don't tell me the exit polls were proof that Kerry just had to have gotten more votes.
Same rain, same line, same ballot, same machines...so how did my vote go for Bush? 'Cause I punched the card that way, dumbass.
Here's a idea for the Dems. Next time around, nominate someone good. Maybe the machines will work correctly then.
UPDATE: As someone who routinely gets stuck in the slowest line at the grocery but waits nonetheless, I'm not sure how "being discouraged by long lines" equals disenfranchisement. Still, in Cuyahoga County, where 448,486 people voted for Kerry (a 66 percent majority), I can only blame the Democrats in front of me for the long lines.
posted by Saint Kansas at 10:10 AM
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I don't believe this election was fraudulent or fishy in any way, but do you really not get why long lines could be disenfranchisement?
If a line is long, some people will decide to either come back later, or decide that they really have to get to work and so not vote at all. (Some of my friends--not in Ohio--were told "the machine is broken, come back later.")
These things happen no matter what you do. If machines break, or there are too few machines, then lines will be long. But, the more machines in a given precinct, the shorter the lines.
It's not hard to imagine someone distributing the machines in a way that certain precincts get less machines than they need, so the voters in those precinct have longer waits, and are more likely to leave rather than spending two hours voting. I'm certainly not okay with manipulations like that.
Thus, the conspirancy theorists would say that you can blame the long lines in your precinct on the Republicans, who made sure there were few voting machines in your area, since your precinct has mostly democrats. I don't know of any evidence to support such claim, but I am a little disturbed that the CEO of Diebold, maker of voting machines, said "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
Perhaps the real cause of the long lines was that there were so many people who had NEVER voted before...maybe the 527s that paid people to register voters should have paid someone else to show the newly registered HOW to use the punch card equipment, and to help prepare them for all of the races and issues on the ballot, not just President.
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