Not that it will effect the presidential results for the state. but it will make a difference in the senate race. The local paper here printed the wrong addresses for voting in primarily democratic districts. Thousands of people went to the wrong place to vote and were turned away. When the local Democratic headquarters asked for a two hour extension on voting time they were told no way. as a result thousands of people in Tyler TX were denied the right to vote. the paper said it was an honest mistake.
Needless to say there’s a lot of pissed off people around East Texas right now.
Ohio is basically coming down to whether Republican challengers purpose (to create long lines) will achieve what they want over an above Democratic determinationto waiting in line for hours and hours to vote, who are in turn getting shut out by Republican lawyers trying to close the polls on people already in line. One thing is pretty obvious: more people came out to vote for John Kerry in Ohio than for George Bush and got in line at some point before 7:30. It’s simply a matter of whether the system will allow them to vote or not.
From Dr. Josh’s site
Across the board the story is the same in Ohio, a lawsuit strategy from Republicans is causing delays and shutdowns in precincts that remained open to allow people who were already in line to vote. Lawsuits create delays; folks leave.
– Josh Marshall
(November 02, 2004 – 09:52 PM EST // link // print)
What we’re hearing is that Florida is too close to call. In Ohio, the GOP is pulling out all the stops, frankly, to steal it in the courts, trying to get courts to stop voting for people who were already in line when the polls closed, ruling against provisional ballots, the whole nine yards. It’s wall to wall ugly.
– Josh Marshall
(November 02, 2004 – 08:49 PM EST // link // print)
Yes, but that’s with only 17% of Cuyahoga precincts reporting. Which means it has a weak influence at this point. Once most of the county is reporting, if it still trends Kerry, it’ll push him up quite a bit.
Holy crap, Bush is only down by 40 votes in Milwaukee. If he gets the big city he could carry the state. Unlikely though. Only 4% in so far.
What has me giggling is you accusing someone else of being “(un)fair and (un)balanced”.
(Of course, I base my comment solely on the lack of logical capacity that you’ve shown in this thread.)
That’s my point.
Peter Jennings just called Richard Perle the head of the Defense advisory board. WTF?
He had to step down because of his corruptions over a year ago.
Had he been reinstated?
Anyone else notice that Bush’s lead in the popular vote has been relentlessly declining as more votes come in? And California hasn’t even closed yet.
Bush is toast. The electoral vote almost always follows the popular, and based on what I’m seeing, it’ll be a range of 51-52 for Kerry, and 48-49 for Bush. Too much of a margin for the EC to distort.
Sorry…I thought you were noting that Cuyahoga was already projected for Kerry.
He’s actually fairly rational xpt when it comes to Team Bush et al.
What does the law say about this situation? Can we get a lawyer’s opinion?
If it doesn’t address the situation (of people not being able to vote before the polls close due to long lines), then it sucks.
If it addresses the situation, but says that people who don’t vote by the poll closing time (for whatever reason) can’t vote, then it sucks.
Clearly, the system should allow everyone who shows up on time to vote.
Also, why are there these long delays anyway? Everyone was expecting a huge turnout, so why weren’t these places prepared to handle all the voters in a timely manner? It’s not as if this is the first election they are running.
No matter who wins, this situation of people showing up to vote but can’t because the polls will close sucks.
Bush 196 Kerry 112
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Severe case of the hiccups. Too much whisky.
Time spent on the bathroom floor, just in case. Another bottle down. Port wood, madiera wood, Isle of Jura, onto Lagavulin.
Love them Islay malts.
Why.
Not four more years.
Please, I’m a good person, god, please. I donated money to the poor and disenfranchised. I donated time as well. I already offered to give up pork. What more do you want?
senate 48R 39D so far
So if Zogby is right, Bush can’t have either Florida or Ohio.
I have to admit here…I may have been wrong about a Kerry win. Its not over yet by any means but Kerry has a LONG way to go to catch back up. And it appears to me that its going to be outside of the margin of whinning too.
-XT
House of reps will stay in Republican control accding to what I just saw
Ahh…Kerry is winning by a 2:1 margin, and only 33% of the precincts counted.
Bush has a 10% lead in FLA right now