Holy Moly: Freepers Talking About Voting Dem

[cali]

Here's Why We'll Win Big In November. Or at least here's one reason. Even if you highmindedly never go to Freeperville, there's a thread over there that gives a pretty good picture of how freaked out by the spending of bushco these folks are. There are hard core wingnuts on this thread stating that they're going to vote dem. (I can't imagine rimjob will allow them to hang out much longer).

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1597495/posts

[Imagevision]

1. If they can resort to election fraud - I wouldn't count the chickens just

yet. GOP needs Diebolds to be in play bigtime!

[KittyWampus]

5. GOP needs close margins in polls. So let's watch for misleading and

fraudelent polls based around issues handpicked by the GOP to start coming out any day now.

[WI_DEM]

2. The number one reason is high gas and energy prices

When it hits the consumer in the pocket book that is when people begin to get mad and pay attention.

[MadMaddie]

3. I think it will push them over the edge if Iran is attacked.....

The shit is going to hit the fan....

[Sammy Pepys]

4. Eh....

They won't have thr guts to do it when they're in the voting booth. They'll vote Repub just like they always have.

[cali]

6. You're right. They won't vote dem, but they

won't vote repub either. They simply won't vote or they'll vote third party.

[Sammy Pepys]

11. No, I think they'll vote Rep....

They'll get in the booth and pull the lever for the party they've always pulled it for. Expecting them to do otherwise because of a few posts on FR is risky.

[cali]

16. Historically, when people

lose faith in their party, no matter how idealogical they are, they don't vote. I'm not basing my estimate that they won't vote merely on a few posts at freerepub, but on the larger picture of people losing their faith.

[Skittles]

26. I'll settle for the ignorant bastards not voting

yes INDEED

[sharp_stick]

7. I don't think I've ever seen a freep thread

that actually disses the boy king and his bootlicking hoard go on for this long without some good GOP moderator killing it and booting all the traitors off of the precious POS site.

[cali]

10. If bush has lost

these people, he and his party are in serious condition. Love this remark:

"I wouldn't bother...:) Many people see Pres. Bush as a god-like figure or a sex-kitten. They see no evil, hear no evil, or speak no evil when it comes to Pres. Bush....or anything he does."

[chancew]

8. Good News...

Maryland House votes to oust Diebold machines

It would replace $90M worth of e-voting machines with systems offering a paper trail


News Story by Marc L. Songini

MARCH 10, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The state of Maryland stands poised to put its entire $90 million investment in Diebold Election Systems Inc. touch-screen e-voting systems on ice because they can’t produce paper receipts.

The state House of Delegates this week voted 137-0 to approve a bill prohibiting election officials from using AccuVote-TSx touch-screen systems in 2006 primary and general elections.

The legislation calls for the state to lease paper-based optical-scan systems for this year's votes. State Delegate Anne Healey estimated the leasing cost at $12.5 million to $16 million for the two elections.

Healey is the vice chairwoman of the Maryland House Ways and Means Committee, which recommended the passage of the bill.

The bill was sent onto the State Senate for a vote after the House action, she said.

Healey said the effort was inspired in part by concerns raised by officials in California and Florida that the Diebold systems have inherent security problems caused by technological and procedural flaws.

“We’ve been hearing from the public for the last several years that it doesn’t have confidence in a system without a paper trail,” Healey said. “We need to provide that level of confidence going forward.”

If the bill becomes law, the state’s Diebold systems will be placed in “abeyance” and the vendor will be required to equip them so that they provide the requisite paper trail, she said.

Healey said the law would require that the machines provide a paper trail before the 2008 elections or Diebold would risk losing its contract with the state.

The bill also requires that any leased optical-scan system be equipped to accommodate the needs of handicapped voters, to ensure compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act statutes.

Healey said she expects the Senate to vote on the bill sometime in the next few weeks, before the legislative session ends.

A Diebold spokesman said the company will “certainly work with the state of Maryland, as we always have, to support their elections as they see fit.”

The spokesman noted that Maryland has been using Diebold machines for several years without problems. The state first contracted with the company to provide the systems in January 2002.

Maryland is following in the footsteps of several other states in expressing concern over the lack of a paper trail in the Diebold machines.

Earlier this month, Florida adopted a new set of security procedures for users of e-voting systems from all suppliers of e-voting machines.

The implementation of these new procedures in Florida was largely a response to reports issued last month by California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson that tests of the Diebold systems found them vulnerable to external access via hacking or bugs.

Nonetheless, McPherson has granted conditional certification for the Diebold machines in California’s elections — with the proviso that supervisors adhere to new security guidelines when using the gear.

The guidelines require that administrators reset the cryptographic keys on every AccuVote-TSx machine from the factory-installed default before every election. Additionally, each memory card must be programmed securely under the supervision of the registrar of voters.

Over an unspecified long term, Diebold must fix the security vulnerabilities to retain the California certification.

In a statement, Diebold said it “wholeheartedly agrees” with the proposed security procedures and said it plans to improve the security of the optical-scan firmware in its machines and create digital signatures to detect tampering.

[Minnesota Libra]

9. OMG, that is so funny!! Neocons turning on their own. nt

[CatWoman]

12. bwahahahahahahaha

look at all those terra-ists :rofl:

[AlCzervik]

13. rofl on this one---

To: KoRn
If there was a Republican President, and we controlled the House and Senate this would never... oh... ummmm... nevermind.


11 posted on 03/16/2006 8:44:12 AM PST by LambSlave (The truth will set you free)
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[mainegreen]

14. Holy crap. It *almost* looks like du over there!

Other than the site is ugly as hell, and the occasional rants about Line Item Veto.

[Catrina]

15. They were so thrilled when Bush gave them their little rebate or refund

check for $600.00 or less a few years ago ~ what a scam that was. When I used to talk to freepers on another board, they were jumping up and down claiming that now they had a government who was 'giving the people back their own money rather than spending it the way Democrats would have'.

People tried to point out to them that the states would have to make up the difference in federal funding by raising property taxes, sales taxes etc. but you couldn't reason with them then.

I wonder how much more they've all paid now in higher gas prices, sales, property taxes etc. Bush et al made fools of them ~ I have no sympathy for them at all although I do feel like going back to that board just to say 'I told you so' ~ they wanted this war and now they're paying for it. It's something they didn't think about back then, they were so filled with hatred they harmed themselves.

They'll probably vote for a third party or stay home but the diehards will stubbornly still vote Republican ~ at least it's good to see them fighting with each other for a change. All the little toys, like Ann Coulter, they were given to play games against 'liberals' with, don't mean much anymore. Those with any intelligence at all must really feel like fools ~ to allow hate for their fellow Americans, sometimes even family members, to have caused them to so totally lose their perspective.

I guess they had to see it to believe it. I know we tried to warn them but they're not the kind of people who can reason ~ now they're waking up and it's got to be a nightmare for them.

They deserve it, but we don't, and that's what makes me so angry. We needed them to help us stop the criminal behavior of this administration ~ but they refused to stand up for their country. It was way more fun to laugh at the insanity of Hannity and Coulter and Rush Limbaugh thrashing Liberals. What fun that was, and when one of their own, like Paul O'Neill eg, tried to warn them also, they joined in the vicious smear campaigns against them too ~ and it has cost them dearly. I hope they had fun and I hope it was worth the trillions it has cost them, and sadly us!

[bullwinkle428]

27. Yeah, that ONE refund check we got, a couple months before 9/11!

They thought that was the beginning of a fountain of money that would flow back into their wallets!

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. Buyer's remorse setting in?

Perhaps they should just GET OVER IT! :evilgrin:

[Montauk6]

18. The question is will they hold it against the PARTY or just Bush?

I just ate my lunch so I'm not going over there.

If they're just freaked out at Bushco, he'll be gone and then they can rally around a "real" GOPer.

[katinmn]

31. Its across the board against Repugs

Rather quite enjoyable for a change.

I'm smiling.:)

[Montauk6]

19. The question is will they hold it against the PARTY or just Bush?

I just ate my lunch so I'm not going over there.

If they're just freaked out at Bushco, he'll be gone and then they can rally around a "real" GOPer.

[mzmolly]

22. Sounds like the party is out.

They are disgusted - finally.

[katinmn]

32. amazing, isn't it?

They see the light.

:toast:

[mzmolly]

35. A sight to behold!

Now I know how to approach the freeper element in my life. ;)

[joeunderdog]

20. Holy Shit--It's a BLOODBATH over there. All of them.

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[mzmolly]

21. Prepare for the rapture!

Hell HATH frozen over. Time for Democrats to RAIL on the National Debt!

[Justice Is Comin]

23. 36 million bucks

an hour just for the interest. Gee it's a shame, that would have bought em a lot more BMW's.

[mzmolly]

34. 36 million per hour?!

Are you serious? :wow:

[cali]

24. Absolutely.

If we don't run with this, we are idiots. And it's right up Dean's alley, too.

[bullwinkle428]

25. Iraq war to cost...ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!!

Is this the thing that finally gets through their thick Freeper skulls?

[BikeWriter]

28. Those assholes are seeing now what their votes for * did!

[katinmn]

29. I love this one:

If there was a Republican President, and we controlled the House and Senate this would never... oh... ummmm... nevermind.

[CJCRANE]

30. Poor freepers only just realising

they voted for a guy who's asleep at the wheel, running on empty and set to cruise control.

[TornadoTN]

33. This post sums up the idiocy of the Right:

To: TXBSAFH

Now come on, you don't really think the GOP is evil do you? The party of pro-life Christians? A $9 trillion debt is not a big problem for a nation with a $12 trillion GDP.

168 posted on 03/16/2006 10:23:18 AM PST by carl in alaska (The raven watching news of the Florida recounts stirred and spoke. Quoth the raven..."NeverGore.")




So according to this ideology, no matter what happens, Republicans are swell because they are "pro-life Christians". How can people be so blind?

[Montauk6]

36. Anyone check out how they're dealing with the new attacks in Iraq?

I'm just wondering if this latest testosterone spill has perked up their spirits for the Boy-Fuhrer.