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« Reply #135 on: October 31, 2008, 06:50:43 AM » |
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Do you guys vote by pulling levers or something rather than a ballot box ?
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« Reply #136 on: October 31, 2008, 07:41:46 AM » |
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they have a choice between a red and a blue pill
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« Reply #137 on: October 31, 2008, 11:59:06 AM » |
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We use touch screen in our local precinct. We live in a big money, big capitalism Republican state. I will still vote.
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« Reply #138 on: October 31, 2008, 12:06:16 PM » |
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I'm glad voting is obligated overhere
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« Reply #139 on: October 31, 2008, 06:33:43 PM » |
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I never know what type of voting machine I will find when I walk into the polling center.
This year it was an optical scanner where you colored in the dots.
4 years ago it was touch screen
8 years ago it was a punch card (Al Gore missed getting Floridas electorial votes by 536 votes) If you remember that election it was all about the "hanging chad"
12 years ago if memory serves me it was an optical scanner
The lever machines are still used in some places - New York City still uses them in places.
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« Reply #140 on: November 01, 2008, 12:09:27 AM » |
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Fascinating  (no sarcasm intended btw) We still use the old 'X' for the candidate you want. A year or two ago in Scotland they tried a new system of rating in preference from one through three I think it was for a first time tried proportional representation vote and the amount of wasted ballot papers was huge. I got the gist of it but did have to think about it (and it's not as if you can ask for help in a ballot booth, rules of the secret ballot) so I could sure understand why the older folks who had been used to just one 'X' for one candidate were getting it all wrong (and not just older folks I suppose). |
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« Reply #141 on: November 01, 2008, 09:40:12 AM » |
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What caused the problem there was that they held the Local Authority and Scottish Parliamentary elections in the one day using two different systems (you had a first and second (PR) choice of candidates for the Scottish Parliament and a choice for a Local Authority candidate on yet another ballot paper). The hearing into it was concluded only a few weeks ago iirc, and they've made assurances that the same mistake won't be made again.  |
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« Reply #142 on: November 05, 2008, 12:41:30 AM » |
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Well it's just about over now. By the time I get up again in the morning the US voters will be realising that they've been duped and they can look forward to four years (maybe more) of President Wooster the First. While everyone was looking the wrong way I hacked the voting system. (I did run into a small glitch this morning when Obama was voting..it took him about twenty minutes for him to cast his various votes and I thought he'd rumbled my surreptitious activity inside his polling station (bastard farted as well while I was in there, and let me tell you it was rotten. That's why his kids were so anxious to get out of there)..but he left smiling, so I believe he suspected nothing.  ) ALL HAIL ME!  |
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« Reply #143 on: November 05, 2008, 12:53:07 AM » |
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I'm calling the FBI as I type. Wooster's going down.
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« Reply #144 on: November 05, 2008, 01:15:23 AM » |
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/puts white cat down Too late Mrs Bond! I'm afraid my plans for world domination are well under way and cannot now be stopped by mere mortals! So bring on your precious Eff Bee Eye, and I shall scoff at them over my morning tea and crumpets. Muhaha, muhahaha. |
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« Reply #145 on: November 05, 2008, 01:38:07 AM » |
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Morning tea and crumpets?  You're a sissy, not a world dominator. I'll meet you at the breakfast table with my raw eggs and cactus juice.  |
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Hyperconnectedness & our ease of movement, that trains & planes & Skype make us all so close to each other...& my fear? I hope that 500 years from now, there will be castles that we made for each other and that there will still be people & music & stories to populate them
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« Reply #146 on: November 05, 2008, 02:45:01 AM » |
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Its 8:45pm here, Obama has 194 projected electoral votes to McCain's 69. It looks like a victory since he has to get 270 and just won Ohio.
Sorry, Woosty, looks like you're plan is foiled.
0 votes for Wooster in Scotland, so far...
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« Reply #147 on: November 05, 2008, 03:01:53 AM » |
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Its 8:45pm here, Obama has 194 projected electoral votes to McCain's 69. It looks like a victory since he has to get 270 and just won Ohio.
Sorry, Woosty, looks like you're plan is foiled.
0 votes for Wooster in Scotland, so far...
199 to 78. The fat lady has sung(no, not Vasco)! California, Oregan and Washington are pretty much Obama's, and Mccain and the lipstick wearing bull dog are done. |
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« Reply #148 on: November 05, 2008, 03:05:31 AM » |
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206 to 89 right now. (9:05pm) time changed on Sunday.
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« Reply #149 on: November 05, 2008, 04:03:38 AM » |
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with poles just closing in the western states cnn has predicted Obama as the winner. (10:05pm)
297 to 139
waaaahoooo!
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