POLITICS

Election Day: Will My Vote Count?

July 7-14, 2008 issue

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In 2000 it was hanging chad in Florida; in 2004 it was disputed provisional ballots in Ohio. Possible polling problems this year:

Two thirds of voters will use a different method to vote than they did in 2004. "Everyone's trying to figure out what works best," says Doug Chapin, director of Electionline.org. "That change breeds a lot of uncertainty."

Most voters will use paper because of security and accuracy worries about digital voting. Paper balloting provides a physical record, but it "lends itself to people making mistakes," like stray marks, says Paul DeGregorio, formerly of the Election Assistance Commission.

Voter turnout will be high. Primary issues could reappear: long lines, inadequate numbers of voting machines and ballot shortages.

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Posted By: the-commish @ 07/09/2008 11:37:52 AM

\Posting the same BS multiple times on multiple threads will not make your racist rants any more true, or any more believable!

But keep going! I like to see idiots making fools of themselves!
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Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/04/2008 10:36:33 AM

WELL ITS THE FORTH OF JULY AND I'M GOING TO THE LAKE WITH MY FAMILY AND MY MARINE CORP BUDDIES WE ARE GOING TO PARTY !!! I'VE GOT MY TRUNKS AND THE SUN SCREEN FOR THE KIDS AND WE ARE ALL GOING TO WEAR OUR NEW OBAMA SLIPPERS ! (THEY ARE FORMERLY KNOWN AS FLIP FLOPS ) THATS WHAT WE ARE CALLING THEM! NOW OBAMA SLIPPERS ALL MY FREINDS SAY THAT IT FITS PERFECTLY... SO LOOK OUT AMERICA BECAUSE OBAMA SLIPPERS ARE COMMING TO A STORE NEAR YOU !!
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Posted By: willnotvoteobama @ 07/04/2008 9:38:10 AM

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'