Election machines rigged... or not?

[deacon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5445086/

[RC]

1. I'm wondering about how

Ohio at first used the touch screen voting machine, and now they had used Punch cards and other paper? Who is right? What did Ohio use?

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Ohio used numerous kinds of machines and differing ballots,

as did Florida. That's the reason that President Carter, who oversees elections in third-world countries, said that the votes in Florida would be suspect. They need uniform voting, throughout the state, not to mention machines that honestly record the votes.:-(

[OhioChick]

3. I've ALWAYS used punch cards.......n/t

[maythebestmanwin]

4. Try putting your energy into something that counts

Look, I hate it when my team loses a game, but I don't give up on the team, and I don't give on the game.

Look Kerry lost. We've lost before, and always come back stronger.

We need to stop this silly obsession with vote counting. (Look, if there was any provable evidence, and I'm not talking about this exit poll nonsense, we'd be hearing it by now.) OK the media is not always on our side. But right up till election day, they reported every fact as soon as we knew it. They aren't robots. If there is some reporter sitting on a mountain of evidence he needs to get some cojones and come forward.

We can get mad, or get elected. You chose. I chose actual power over this pretend power (this cloud-cukoo land) that some people want to live in.

Get real. Your computer can't vote. Go talk to your neighbor, especially if this neighbor happens to be Republican. Don't hate this person, and don't call him stupid. Find out, as one person to another, why this actual human being voted for Bush. If you treat this person right, Maybe he'll want to know about what you believe.

That is how we are going to win the next election. By talking to people and building our grassroots support. This bitterness and diviseness and obsession on the electronics of little black boxes is alienated the very voters we need in 2006. ( note the date. The next battle starts in 2006, not 2008, and we could win this one big