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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23 2012 @ 12:26 PM EDT |
You're smoking really bad crack.
The purpose you suppose, couldn't possibly be achieved reliably by that
mechanism. The whole point of skewing the vote is by knowing WHICH votes to
invalidate--you know, by manually reviewing the votes, knocking/shaking chad
loose when it's the right vote, being careful not to shake the chad when it's
the wrong vote; trying to eliminate particular classes of voter (like military
absentee votes) because they're likely to be "wrong", or registering
particular illegal voters (felons, illegal aliens) because they're likely to be
"right" (or can be persuaded to be "right").
The reason the machines weren't cleaned is undoubtedly very simple. Cleaning the
machines costs money, and the county commissioners had more important (to them)
things to spend money on--things, however legitimate or wasteful, which would
make a visible difference to their constituents' lives.
New projects are always more visible than maintenance. The metropolitan area
next door is busy building new parks with one hand, and eliminating the
operating budget for maintenance of old ones (which effectively forces them to
close.)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 12:49 AM EDT |
I remember watching endless stories in 2000 about hanging chads and the like. I
don't ever remember hearing anything about any kind of machine in connection
with those stories.. My undestanding is the ballots in use in Florida at the
time were punched using a "stylus" which I undestand to be a pointy
pencil shaped thingie. Amd the issue was not that voters couldn't punch holes,
even with all of their might, because of resistance but simply that some (many?)
of the chads had not completely detached from the ballot -- i.e. "hanging
chads". Do you have a link that would help me make sense of your talk
about non-emptied "chad machines"?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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