On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:19:45 -0800, Gunner
wrote:
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:04:34 -0800, "ff" wrote:
"Karl Townsend" wrote...

You may have heard the senate race in MN is 200 votes from a
tie...I'll be part of the hand recount tomorrow.

After 2000, the Feds handed out a lot of money for voting equipment
upgrade. Nearly all (I think all but can't be certain) upgraded to a
ballot on heavy paper where you fill in the dot for your vote. At the
ballot box, a machine tallies your vote secretly and informs you if
there are over votes (too many candidate for one office) or under
votes (offices that weren't voted.

This system was supposed to be idiot proof but, of course, they just
built a better idiot.

Does the name InkaVote sound familiar? We had the exact same thing
in the "Hanging Chad" variant for decades, it's based on the old IBM
Punchcard form factor.

First, the ballot machine beeps on an over or under vote. Almost
without exception, the voter tells the ballot judge to accept anyway.
This is where the idiots get their chance.

On hand inspection, I'm sure ballots will be found where the voter has
erased or crossed out one candidate and voted for the other, ballots
where the candidate was circled or checked etc.( the machine didn't
count these), a pencil was used (again the machine didn't count
these), other unique issues.

All absentee ballot rejections will be reviewed, also. The biggest
opportunity for debate here is the rule of matching signature on the
ballot envelope and the ballot application. We rejected a couple
ballots for this at our precinct. What is considered a match is open
to debate.

Anyway, long story short. The election is totally up in the air in MN.
The Senate stands at 58 dems right now, could easily go to 59. 60 is
the magic number where we're all in trouble. (Political opinion,
there's nothing worse than one party having all the power - you need a
check and balance here)

And they'll just keep counting till they get the answer they want.

If Al Franken wins, CSPAN will be more entertaining :-)

No it won't. The Mainstream Media will soft-pedal the stupidities
on the left as they have done for decades. The only time Obama got
any bad press was when that producer was pulling for Hillary, Period

They'll edit out all the gaffes that they don't want the public to
find out about, just like we never learned Franklin Roosevelt was
confined to a wheelchair by Polio before and during his presidency -
the press agreed to downplay and hide the facts as to how bad it
really was. They simply never took a wide shot, and waited till he
was walked to the lectern with locked leg braces for speeches....

And anyone that did get a picture of FDR in a wheelchair or being
assisted had the negatives destroyed by the Secret Service.

Did I mention NY Central Rwy Track 61? This is the "Secret Train
Station" under the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, with the freight
elevator to take FDR, already seated in his car, from the train
station to the Hotel parking garage and a drive-out exit, or straight
up to his hotel suite?

Our current sterling example of the press actively burying bad news
to Dems is Rep, Maxine Waters telling the CEO's of major US oil
companies she wants to nationalize them and keep the profits. Betcha
Katie Couric didn't give that fifteen seconds on the Six O'Clock.

And I'll bet that the Liberal Nightly News isn't going to mention a
word about the fact that our proposed new Attorney General is the same
person who pushed through the Mark Rich pardon (and dozens of other
equally odious ones) on the last day of the Clinton administration.

If Franken wins, Im moving to California, where the fruits nuts and
flakes are already in office.

Gunner

Umm, I hate to break it to you Old Man, but you might want to take a
closer look at your drivers license and such.

About the only hope would be to split the state, and send all the
real wackos off to San Francisco - send Tony Villar off to live with
Gavin Newsom, the rocks in Antonio's head fit the holes in Gavin's.

We'll have to make isolation zones drawn around Hollywood, Culver
City and Universal City (all the major studio lots) to create a
"Liberal DMZ", since they can't move the good weather to Frisco.

(Yeah, I called it Frisco. Deal with it, you pansies.)

-- Bruce -- a Los Angeles Native, but I'm getting better.