From here. It’s a Yahoo news link - I don’t know how long it’ll be accessible.
Some 60,000 absentee ballots were mailed out on October 7th and 8th - some have been delivered, but apparently most have disappeared.
:rolleyes:
I doubt it’s anything fraudulent - just your basic mistake. But sometimes, being a Floridian is embarrasing…
Way to go Florida.
How 'bout them Gators!
One tries not to be paranoid, but everything about the pending election forebodes doom.
Eh, I’d want to know if there’s any obvious demographic slant one way or another in the county in question before I get too worked up about it.
I love these bits:
Well isn’'t that just fine and dandy… except for those of us who aren’t in the U.S. presently and won’t be back in time to get ANY of the polls.
I requested and received my absentee ballot from Michigan (I haven’t been in the U.S. since September and won’t be until the en d of November). Glad I wasn’t registered in Florida.
Between that and Bush blocking his website from outside of the U.S. I’m really wondering if they want any of us Americans abroad exercising our voting rights.
Whatever the demographics, there’s an obvious question of what happened to the ballots and where they’ll end up. My first thought was voter suppression, but my second thought is simple fraud.
My third and hopefully accurate thought is that the damned post office just screwed up again.
C’mon, you’re not up to date. Here’s the latest breaking bullshit from the Orange-Free State.
BTW - can any overseas Dopers confirm my link above? I’m in Canada and did have isssues visiting the Chimp’s site earlier, but now I have access. Are overseas ISPs still blocked?
As for the mail – my company’s marketing department send out huge batches of stuff (10,000-20,000 pieces) and it’s actually not that unusual for stuff to get a bit fucked up with big batches of stuff getting held up at the mail house where it sits for awhile before it gets released to the USPS.
I suspect it was just a mail snafu.
Would still suck to be a Floridian abroad right now.
Someone just tried to run down Kathleen Harris.
He missed though, which I suppose is a good thing. <shrug>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/27/fl.13.harris.attack/index.html
D’oh!
I am clearly undercaffeinated. :smack:
Egads. This just gets uglified and uglifieder.
Exercising his rights to free speech by running people down?
EC: BTW - can any overseas Dopers confirm my link above? I’m in Canada and did have isssues visiting the Chimp’s site earlier, but now I have access. Are overseas ISPs still blocked?
I’m an American citizen (not that that matters, since how could the White House server know?) residing in the Netherlands, and I just tried to go to
www.georgewbush.com:
Somebody please explain to me a valid reason for this decision while I’m still on low simmer. Geez, when you consider all the bad PR this administration has already garnered for being secretive and sneaky, why on earth would they want to pull a stunt like this? Even if it doesn’t really make a significant difference when it comes to informing the public, it just looks bad.
Maybe only people in Ohio are allowed to connect.
[paraphrasing Jon Stewart]
“I’m sorry Florida. It’s nothing personal, but we’re going to have to let you go. It’s just not working out”
WTF is with the blocked int’l access?? Momentary glitch, I’d think. They can’t be that ham-fisted, can they?
My bet is that it was her husband!
did anyone see the CSpan video of her flirting hard with that other married congressperson? Kinda funny.
I saw a few stills on canoodling.com or something.
jk: WTF is with the blocked int’l access?? Momentary glitch, I’d think. They can’t be that ham-fisted, can they?
Well, the BBC article that Eats_Crayons linked to says that the blocking began early Monday morning. If it’s just an unintentional glitch, I’m surprised they haven’t fixed it by now.
I’m in Denmark, and what I see when I try to access the site is:
So yes, the block is still active.
Thanks Kimstu, I hadn’t RTFA. Blinx confirms it is still blocked.
Wow. Just, wow.
The only possible explanation could be saving costs by limitiing bandwith to only those who can vote, but that’s pretty damn weak. Can any overseas dopers try accessing other relevant sites to see if they are blocked?
www.johnkerry.com
www.votenader.org
Any others?
Anyone have experience running international websites that can estimate how much $$ can be saved by this type of move? I can’t imagine it’s be enough to make the negative press worthwhile.