I’m in such a good mood, I won’t even press for an indictment. Go, and sin no more.
The ads in the race have been interesting. Pombo is a genuine corrupt sleazeball; but McNerney’s ads are most eager to point out that he’s a “stay the courser”. So we can take corruption, but Iraq is the straw the broke the elephant’s back, so to speak.
And McNerney’s ads try to get brownie points because his *son * joined the army after 9/11. That just makes me smile every time.
What’s troubling about that story? The mistake was immediately obvious and able to be corrected-- isn’t that exactly what’s supposed to happen?
It’s not just NM-01. It’s all of New Mexico.
WRT to the Dems’ conduct in Congress the past 4 years, Spectre seems to have confused “bipartisan congeniality” with “helpless despair.”
Events will teach him better. 
No, what’s supposed to happen is that the voting machines don’t make any mistake. And what’s troubling about it is that there may be a significant number of mistakes being made in the voting process that aren’t being caught.
it was this that concerned me
"The polling person leaned in very close to my wife and whispered, “We’re f----d.”
True the “we” could have meant any number of things - The University of Missouri Football Team, the polling person may have been offering her a glimpse into his sex life, things may have looked bleak for him and the mouse in his pocket - but it was implied that he had seen some unsettling business at the polling station.
I know on the SDMB things like “implied” are verboten, but this thread is a bit loosey-goosey so I thought I could get a pass.
Perhaps I should save it for IMHO. anyway, that’s what I was referring to with “crap.”
Foggy and warm when I voted across the street from my house just before 8 am.
Alameda county is using these immense paper ballots. They give you a pen, and you’re supposed to color in a line between two arrows for the candidate of your choice. (I hope I didn’t vote for Buchanan 
) That took a while, since the ballots are a bit big for the booths, and are two sided. Then you tear off a receipt strip, and feed it to a paper shredder - um, OCR. I had a hard time getting it to accept it, but the only poll worker there under 80 helped. No wait when I came in, but it was already backing up because of the long ballot. These paper ballots are a lot bigger than the ones used for the primary. I hope the OCR doesn’t jam, and I hope they don’t have a backup.
Your ballot is not exactly private feeding it into this monster, but stuffing the ballot box is impossible.
My congressman is one of the most liberal in the House, who said the right things about Bush long before it was popular. He has no real opposition, and has been sending his donations to other Dems.
She’s from gasp San Francisco and is no doubt infected by teh gay. Probably gave it to Foley.
Consider it given. I got it, so most folks oughta.
Down here in Texas we’re having a lovely day for more of the same. The only question mark I know of is out in Delay’s district, where the race is between a democrat that Delay gerrymandered out of office, and his opponent, a woman who can’t fellatio Bush enough. It’s apparently a dead heat, in spite of the fact that the woman in question is a write-in, and voters have to write her longish name (Shelly Sekula Gibbs) using the wheel-and-button contraption that passes for a voting machine here.
I heard from one of our local radio stations who is keeping track of the local turnout that there was an entire precinct in (I think) Lancaster County, PA that would change all Republican votes to votes for Democrats.
I call fraud and I demand a recount.
OK, OK, while I am serious about the reported flaws, I’m just making preemptive fun of the people who will be screaming “ELECTION FRAUD!!!” in just a few short hours.
Wait, what? He was putting money on those odds? I just thought it was an empty prediction. I want in on that now.
Voted early this morning. Looked about the same as usual (pretty empty) and went as smoothly as last time (really freaking smoothly, seriously). My “I voted!” sticker fell off sometime during the day. That is my only complaint…
…until the results come in…
Fair enough. Honestly, my first thought reading the story was “pilot error.” But let’s give the voter the benefit of the doubt and assume the screen was miscalibrated so the “hot” areas didn’t line up with the onscreen graphics. I agree that that’s a BAD thing. But realistically, any system is going to have some glitches-- a paper ballot could have typos or smudges, for instance. The important thing, in my mind, is that the system is totally transparent and unambiguous, so that when glitches occur they are obvious and are caught right away. It sounds like that’s exactly what happened here. I genuinely don’t see what’s so sinister about it.
As for the comment made by the election worker, what is it supposed to mean? That he’s aware of a Republican plot to steal votes but is afraid to name names? Or just that he’s bought into the silly meme that “Computers=FRAUD!”?
Anyway, if the election worker is so sure that the machine is on the fritz or has been tampered with, why did he still let her use it and then just offer some cryptic warning afterward? He could have just disabled the machine and directed her to the paper ballots instead. The story just doesn’t make any sense to me-- but I guess a juicy conspiracy theory is just too hard for some people to resist.
I doubt I’ll be one of them. Could be, but I doubt it. These glitches seem perfectly normal to me. New machines, very long ballots in some states (especially mine), and what appears to be not enough training for the poll workers.
But we’ll see - if Denver goes Republican, I might raise an eyebrow.
What are the odds this one winds up in court?
He looks like he’s practicing for a position at a glory hole.
Funkadelic, baby.
How do people know what # voter they are?
On the receipt if you’ve got one. I’m 480. Huh. Guess my precinct is full of early-birds.