Comments on: Karma http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:19:58 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Robert Auxier http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-367263 Robert Auxier Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:43:28 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-367263 <p>Well, PERSONALLY I be an Anarchist {Arhhh!} But, of course this means that I side with the Dem(s) 90% of the time. How ever my girl betrayed the SCARED Cause she voted for Chaffeee (Arhhh!) So, I personalized Bill Clintons comment for her “How will YOU feel IF <em>WE</em> win five other seats and WE fail to gain control because of Rhode Island!” It is well after noon and not advanced Poll data is out being blockedwithheld. However, I am recording two news channels and the C-Span evening coverage — and NBC and the Daily Show… So that WHEN the theft happens THIS time, I will edit it together into a lovely video. Well, let’s hope it doesn’t… However, I fear that luck has little to do with it.</p> Well, PERSONALLY I be an Anarchist {Arhhh!} But, of course this means that I side with the Dem(s) 90% of the time. How ever my girl betrayed the SCARED Cause she voted for Chaffeee (Arhhh!) So, I personalized Bill Clintons comment for her “How will YOU feel IF WE win five other seats and WE fail to gain control because of Rhode Island!” It is well after noon and not advanced Poll data is out being blockedwithheld. However, I am recording two news channels and the C-Span evening coverage — and NBC and the Daily Show… So that WHEN the theft happens THIS time, I will edit it together into a lovely video. Well, let’s hope it doesn’t… However, I fear that luck has little to do with it.

]]> By: Ray Mann http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-367169 Ray Mann Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:05:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-367169 <p>Mean Jean and other SW Ohio candidates, voting from WCPO TV in Cincinnati, Ohio<br /> <a href="http://wcpo.com/cgi-bin/vembed.pl?vurl=http://real.scripps.com:8480/ramgen/cincinowrs/2006/11/07_candidates.rm&title=9News_Story_Video&banner=wcpocom">http://wcpo.com/cgi-bin/vembed.....er=wcpocom</a></p> Mean Jean and other SW Ohio candidates, voting from WCPO TV in Cincinnati, Ohio
http://wcpo.com/cgi-bin/vembed…..er=wcpocom

]]> By: Gles http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-367025 Gles Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:49:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-367025 <p>Jean’s got nothing to worry about…….Kenny Boy Blackwell will come to her rescue like he did for Bushco…………. Here’s the deal:</p> <p>Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again</p> <p><a href="http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2006/11/7/115314/922">http://scoop.epluribusmedia.or.....115314/922</a></p> <p>“As the last ballots are cast tonight, Ohioans will confidently track realtime results using voting equipment and Internet reporting systems that Ken Blackwell built to replace the horrors of hanging chads. Will the electorate choke to find that the architect of Ohio’s Election Night Results Dashboard is an RNC technology strategist and the political intimate of the Bush Dynasty since the 80s? Will a Strickland voter simply resolve to swallow harder on discovering that his realtime election returns may be shipped to his desktop from the GOP Internet operations center in Chattanooga rather than the Ohio OARnet IT servers in Columbus?”</p> Jean’s got nothing to worry about…….Kenny Boy Blackwell will come to her rescue like he did for Bushco…………. Here’s the deal:

Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again

http://scoop.epluribusmedia.or…..115314/922

“As the last ballots are cast tonight, Ohioans will confidently track realtime results using voting equipment and Internet reporting systems that Ken Blackwell built to replace the horrors of hanging chads. Will the electorate choke to find that the architect of Ohio’s Election Night Results Dashboard is an RNC technology strategist and the political intimate of the Bush Dynasty since the 80s? Will a Strickland voter simply resolve to swallow harder on discovering that his realtime election returns may be shipped to his desktop from the GOP Internet operations center in Chattanooga rather than the Ohio OARnet IT servers in Columbus?”

]]> By: cloud7 http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366965 cloud7 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:01:25 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366965 <p>We only had paper ballots where I voted this morning. Thank goodness for small New England towns and their healthy aversion to new-fangled technology. Well, either that or we were too cheap to go buy a set of Diebold ballot miscounters. ;)</p> We only had paper ballots where I voted this morning. Thank goodness for small New England towns and their healthy aversion to new-fangled technology. Well, either that or we were too cheap to go buy a set of Diebold ballot miscounters. ;)

]]> By: HotFlash http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366960 HotFlash Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:58:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366960 <p><a href="#comment-366743"><em>crank @<br /> 52 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Christy, anything that makes Jean unhappy has the opposite effect on me, but don’t enjoy this too much: “Election machine problems are no joke — and being able to show evidence that this sort of thing can happen to anyone, even a member of Congress? Priceless!”</p> <p>The Republicans are planning to dispute results they don’t like, and part of the groundwork for their challenges involves calling the voting machines into question. If they can’t steal the vote by suppression and election-day shenanigans, expect to see goons and lawyers wherever the Democrats have a close victory. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Republicans also have a list of more pliable judges.</p> <p>Why would the Republicans raise questions about one of their favorite vote-stealing tools? Because they (or is it just Bush and Rove?) believe that wherever the vote is in dispute, they can win.</p></blockquote> <p>Agreed. If they can contest a result they don’t like it gives them a chance for a do-over with judges. Judges whom they may own. Anyone know if this election contesting stuff is eligible for trial by jury?</p> crank @
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Christy, anything that makes Jean unhappy has the opposite effect on me, but don’t enjoy this too much: “Election machine problems are no joke — and being able to show evidence that this sort of thing can happen to anyone, even a member of Congress? Priceless!”

The Republicans are planning to dispute results they don’t like, and part of the groundwork for their challenges involves calling the voting machines into question. If they can’t steal the vote by suppression and election-day shenanigans, expect to see goons and lawyers wherever the Democrats have a close victory. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Republicans also have a list of more pliable judges.

Why would the Republicans raise questions about one of their favorite vote-stealing tools? Because they (or is it just Bush and Rove?) believe that wherever the vote is in dispute, they can win.

Agreed. If they can contest a result they don’t like it gives them a chance for a do-over with judges. Judges whom they may own. Anyone know if this election contesting stuff is eligible for trial by jury?

]]> By: fall vegetable http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366918 fall vegetable Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:24:08 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366918 <p><b>Paper or Diebold: what the RNC Chair picked</b><br /> I stood directly behind RNC Chair Ken Mehlman at my Capitol Hill polling place this morning. When asked by a poll worker to pick between one of DC’s new electronic voting machines and a traditional paper and pencil ballot, Mr. Mehlman chose the latter. He was looking a tad grim, by the way.</p> <p>dp</p> Paper or Diebold: what the RNC Chair picked
I stood directly behind RNC Chair Ken Mehlman at my Capitol Hill polling place this morning. When asked by a poll worker to pick between one of DC’s new electronic voting machines and a traditional paper and pencil ballot, Mr. Mehlman chose the latter. He was looking a tad grim, by the way.

dp

]]> By: Birdman http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366892 Birdman Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:00:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366892 <p><a href="#comment-366861"><em>smiley @ 112</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-366747"><em>Birdman @<br /> 56 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Machines ask for a “Supervisor card” - nobody at precinct has them. Poll workers don’t know what to do… </p></blockquote> <p>The password is “1111.” Tell them to push the yellow button on the back and vote as many times as they want!</p></blockquote> <p>No doubt…. Apparently this was widespread across that whole county. Took them two hours to get the machines running. Nobody was ever offered provisional ballots - just turned away from the polling site.</p> smiley @ 112

Birdman @
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Machines ask for a “Supervisor card” – nobody at precinct has them. Poll workers don’t know what to do…

The password is “1111.” Tell them to push the yellow button on the back and vote as many times as they want!

No doubt…. Apparently this was widespread across that whole county. Took them two hours to get the machines running. Nobody was ever offered provisional ballots – just turned away from the polling site.

]]> By: mrsmarks http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366868 mrsmarks Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:47:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366868 <p>Just heard from a work associate who voted this morning in NY-20, home to Kirsten Gillibrand.</p> <p>She and her husband arrived around 6:50. There were about 60 people there, with more pouring in as they left. They live in a rural corner of the district, “where there are more cows than people.” She was highly encouraged.</p> Just heard from a work associate who voted this morning in NY-20, home to Kirsten Gillibrand.

She and her husband arrived around 6:50. There were about 60 people there, with more pouring in as they left. They live in a rural corner of the district, “where there are more cows than people.” She was highly encouraged.

]]> By: smiley http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366861 smiley Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:42:21 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366861 <p><a href="#comment-366747"><em>Birdman @<br /> 56 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Machines ask for a “Supervisor card” - nobody at precinct has them. Poll workers don’t know what to do… </p></blockquote> <p>The password is “1111.” Tell them to push the yellow button on the back and vote as many times as they want!</p> Birdman @
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Machines ask for a “Supervisor card” – nobody at precinct has them. Poll workers don’t know what to do…

The password is “1111.” Tell them to push the yellow button on the back and vote as many times as they want!

]]> By: smiley http://firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366860 smiley Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:39:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/11/07/karma/#comment-366860 <p><a href="#comment-366733"><em>LJ/Aquaria @<br /> 42 </em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>I bet her Mascara runs. And a big clump of her hair Aquanet-slathered hair sticks to her face. </p></blockquote> <p>I read that as “I bet her Macaca runs.” I had to go back and read it again.</p> LJ/Aquaria @
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I bet her Mascara runs. And a big clump of her hair Aquanet-slathered hair sticks to her face.

I read that as “I bet her Macaca runs.” I had to go back and read it again.

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