As a Chicago native, I am often faced with references to dead people voting and rigged elections. Unfortunately, having grown up under the original Daley machine, they are largely true. My parents helped found the Independent Voter movement and documented some unbelievable cases of fraud. I recall on precinct where the captain actually produced more votes than registered voters. In one percent where I was an observer, a voter discovered that her dead husband had voted before her. For that reason, the controversy with voting machines this week could not have come at a worse time or place — particularly with polls showing the Democrats approaching what could be a disaster. When Republican state representative candidate Jim Moynihan went to cast his vote Monday at the Schaumburg Public Library, he experienced a Homer Simpson moment when every time he tried to pick his name, the machine registered the vote for his Democratic opponent.
As Homer said, “this type of thing doesn’t happen in America . . . maybe Ohio but not America.”
Moynihan issued a warning for Republicans not to trust the machines and “Be careful when you vote in Illinois. Make sure you take the time to check your votes before submitting.”
Cook County Board of Elections Deputy Communications Director Jim Scalzitti insisted that this is not a return to “Cooked County” and that this was merely “a calibration error of the touch-screen on the machine.”
Source: The Week
computer malfunctioned… Worked for an elected official that represented that area. door knocked it. People still go campaigning door to door in Minnesota.
“most conservative cities”
If St. Paul was above 55, the criteria must have consisted of mowing the lawn and not wearing nipple rings.
nick, I worked for a rep in the eighties that represented th
Nick, noticing is crimethink.
As Radiohead sang, This isn’t happening. I’m not here. I’m not here”
Prairie Home Companion needs some affirmative action for its audience.
Ever been?
It’d do 1950s southern Democrats proud.
But they say all the right -er, left- things, so it’s OK.
Mesa AZ was No 1. No surprise there.
Just saw list of most conservative cities. They listed 67. St.Paul was 55 and Mpls was 62. SF was 67.
Pogo, A couple years ago my newlywed daughter and her husband were house hunting. They found a place they kinda liked near the airport in Minneapolis, but then found a “better” house in St. Paul that was 20k cheaper. I did some background checks and found that within a 5 block radius of the St. Paul house there had been 15 drug related arrests, 2 rapes, 4 armed robberies, numerous shots fired complaints and a homicide. They are putting up w/ airport noise.
“Fundimentalstan”
Oh, that’s St. Paul, MN.
Garrison Keillor is their imam.
It’s feminist kiddie soft core porn.
Nick Spinelli
SWM, I said at least a couple times I did not agree w/ what Squeeky was saying and pointed out other places of disagreement. But, being a libertarian, I have no compulsion to tell her what she can think or say. I LOVE the archives here because they provide a record of all the hurtful things people have said over the years. Sunshine is a non partisan disinfectant. It cleanses intolerant opinions from both the left and right.
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The bad ones are removed so there is no record.
We keep the good bad ones.
How difficult is it to create an electronic voting machine that actually works without such errors? Calibration error? How about putting the choices wider apart on the screen so that if the digitizer on the screen is out of alignment that it will be less likely an error would take place? Why not have the user at the beginning of the voting session touch boxes located at the lower left, center, and upper right of the screen to test alignments at the beginning? Or, at least test every machine before the polls open.
I have never been a fan of computerized voting machines. If not properly developed they are open to hacking. I had never imagined there would be such wide problems, such as the problems of the Diebold machines ten or so years ago that hit the national news.
Nick Spinelli – “I think all the feminist will want to stay away from the same sex marriage thread. Jim posted a despicable video made by feminists exploiting female CHILDREN. It is one of the most blatant examples of exploitation I have see on the internet, ever.”
Nick, Yes, very disturbing. I caught part of it on a show and went to their site and had to force myself to watch it. Not many things bother me but it’s almost like you can see the innocence of those children being sucked from their souls.
swarthmoremom – “Jim 22, Texas has a very low rate of voter participation, and it is particularly low among the hispanic population. Would it not be better to encourage involvement in the process rather than discourage it? Don’t think illegals are really that interested in voting.”
Absolutely. As long as they are legal to vote. The difference is, you think having to show ID hurts this where I don’t.
Time to go back to a paper ballot.
Ohhhhh sorry, Reagun, no Raygunn, no, oh never mind…. I think they should just embrace themselves and call their new county Fundimentalstan.
The same thing happens in republican controlled districts … votes are changed to republican votes.
The sentient computers must sense where the power is and act accordingly.
SWM, I’m tempted to say “Good riddance”. I’m predicting that there would be a huge influx of refugees from the Country of Regan (lol) flooding into the northern states.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/reagan-aide-calls-for-southern-secession ”
A former aide to President Ronald Reagan is calling for southern states to secede from the union and form a new conservative nation called “Reagan” where citizens wouldn’t be forced to compromise on “traditional values” like marriage.
Right Wing Watch on Wednesday flagged conservative author Douglas MacKinnon’s interview with evangelical radio host Janet Mefferd, in which he hocked his new book, “The Secessionist States of America: The Blueprint for Creating a Traditional Values County … Now.” Cautioning that all his secession talk was purely “academic,” MacKinnon suggested that South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida break away from the United States and form a new republic named “Reagan.”
“You have to remember that all 11 states from the South, including ultimately Texas, seceded legally,” MacKinnon told Mefferd. “They left the union peacefully, they left the union legally, and then President Lincoln … part of the problem there was that the North realized very quickly that it could not survive economically without the power of the South.”
After making the legal case for secession — and branding the Civil War “illegal” to boot — MacKinnon argued that the leaders Americans are electing today do not represent traditional values, particularly when it comes to marriage.”
I think all the feminist will want to stay away from the same sex marriage thread. Jim posted a despicable video made by feminists exploiting female CHILDREN. It is one of the most blatant examples of exploitation I have see on the internet, ever.
I apologize for my statement, it was rather unkind. Please forgive my infraction of not being civil.