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Griff 01-25-2007 03:22 PM

Careful, we Pennsyltuckians don't want a tsunami.

These kinds of crimes need much harsher penalties, if they want the electorate to believe in the system.

yesman065 01-25-2007 05:16 PM

From what I read, and it wasn't much, the hand recounts were/are less accurate anyway.

Ronald Cherrycoke 01-25-2007 07:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 310219)
Electoral votes = 538
BUT that 23 votes was in one of 3,140 counties. Do you really think that was the only crooked county? :rolleyes:

These things happen in every election...does it mean it is widespread and systematic....nope!

xoxoxoBruce 01-26-2007 07:50 AM

These things happen in every election...does it mean it isn't widespread and systematic....nope! :p
But the point is not the mistakes that are inevitable, it's the manipulating of the system to "guide" the outcome to a predetermined conclusion.
Election workers actively working to prevent an accurate count or recount, should be shot. No question..... shot, as in capital punishment. There is no greater crime against the people than corrupting the election process.

Undertoad 01-26-2007 07:54 AM

Gonna be hard to find poll workers... in this Commonwealth you need at least three paid workers in every polling location and they get about $100 each. If they stand a chance of being shot, they will want more pay.

yesman065 01-26-2007 07:56 AM

Perhaps we could offer them hazard pay.

xoxoxoBruce 01-27-2007 12:20 AM

Pehaps if they didn't fuck with the election they wouldn't have to worry about it. :mad:

yesman065 01-27-2007 01:13 AM

Bruce, thats not realistic - If we all did the "right thing" we wouldn't need laws.

Undertoad 01-27-2007 06:44 PM

Apparently Ohio has a real problem finding poll workers
Quote:

Ohio's secretary of state is considering a plan to draft poll workers to supplement an aging work force and shorten the job's long hours, a spokesman said Saturday. Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat, plans to ask the GOP-controlled Legislature to authorize the proposal, Brunner spokesman Jeff Ortega said Saturday. Experts said Ohio would be the first state to use a draft.

Brunner believes the move would lower the average age of poll workers from 72 and ease the workload. Ohio has about 47,000 poll workers - or just over four per precinct.

xoxoxoBruce 01-27-2007 07:07 PM

That works out to about 12,000, one per precinct, that have to be trained to tamper with the machines. The rest can be doing what they are supposed to be doing, ie draftees. :eyebrow:


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