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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:08 PM
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So, why aren't we "counting the votes" to "keep them honest" in South Carolina?
The polls were even more off in SC than they were in NH. SC has electronic voting, and the machines they used have been hacked in the past.

Many were talking about how necessary it was to recount the votes in NH. When the recount showed no change in voting, those same people talked about how it was part of a concerted campaign to keep voting honest. So, where's the demand for an SC recount?
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quinnox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:09 PM
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1. Because Obama won
Its Obama supporters that want recounts if he doesn't win like in New Hampshire. Because it is impossible for Obama to ever lose fair and square.
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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:10 PM
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2. Because Clinton supporters don't shout "FRAUD" every time they lose
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:12 PM
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3. Electronic voting doesn't allow for recounts. What's the question?
All you do with electronic voting is press a button and it goes "the vote is correct." This is why electronic voting and a lack of paper trail is a bad thing.

I'm glad my state (Colorado) is going paper ballot all the way.
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Occam Bandage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:15 PM
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6. I haven't seen anyone complaining about the inability to recount, either.
People were crying foul before the NH results were in. There wasn't a peep about potential fraud in SC.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:13 PM
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4. The SC machines are as bad - if no worse than NH. But primaries recounts are STUPID
as I said in NH as well - as democrats don't own machines.
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Orangepeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-29-08 12:13 PM
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5. There are no ballots to recount in South Carolina
but point taken.
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