Was Diebold not used in Virginia?

So how come we won? :shrug:

for instance, my family in va beach was given the choice between diebold and punch cards.

that it was not Die-bold. It prints the vote after it is made, stores one copy in memory too.

I used the punch card as I have extra voting energy and need to get that force out more physically!

is definitely an excellent way to relieve stress.
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I chose punch cards. Next year I will not have that choice. Funny isn't it, they didn't ask us, they just pushed it on us.

was this a "test run" year?

does not even qualify as rumor as the fellow was saying it jest - I think!

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:-)

Was given no options.

How long does it take a computer to tally its votes?

Why was the governor's race sometimes 20% of the precincts ahead of the lt. governor and attorney general? Shouldn't they all be tallied neck and neck.

CBS also had Kaine ahead the whole night, but NBC had Kilgore way ahead early by almost a 100,000. So who gets what totals? Why was NBC flipping the results so bizarrely?

They initially had Kilgore leading by 97%-1%, netting Kilgore a phony 90,000 votes. That's what contributed to the big 54-42% Kilgore lead early on. Kaine actually won that county. The early 54-42 percentage was nonsense, never happened.

In the initial Virginia election results thread on this forum several DUers caught that Kilgore plummeted from 309,000 votes in one update down to 250,000 votes even after additional precincts had been counted. That was when the Brunswick data had been fixed. I shudder to guess what the reaction would have been around here if Kaine had "lost" 90,000 votes in midstream.

to refill the Treasury. No fun robbing an empty piggy bank. When there is a surplus again they will be back.

because they figured we would be more supportive of water fluoridation, thus allowing them to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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repug Lt Gov

Who has the power in Virginia?

The Lt. Gov. position is largely ceremonial. And it hardly was a shock that Leslie Byrne lost. I like Leslie, but frankly I'm surprised she made as close as she did. She was my Congresswoman back in the early 1990s, but was defeated by Tom Davis after one term. She just rubs some people the wrong way. So it was predictable that even in her home territory, she would run a percentage point or two behind Kaine -- even though he's from Richmond. And in the more conservative parts of the state, she didn't stand a chance.

As for the Attorney General, I daresay that a ,majority of Virginians (including a sizable percentage of thsoe who voted for Kilgore) don't know who the current AG is (its Kilgore).And nearly that many could'nt tell you the name of the AG candidate they voted for.

Frankly, the AG and Lt. Gov positions are generally regarded as nothing more as "on deck" circles for the next gubernatorial election. What is interesting is that, if Deeds doesn't pull out the AG race, in four years there could be a battle between two repugs that will divide the party further. Plus there is speculation that former Governor Gilmore might decide to make a new run for the position. That could open the door for another Democrat (possibly Deeds) to give the Dems their third straight victory. Of course, a lot can happen between now and then,and how the state is doing under Kaine will be as much a factor as anything.

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