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AmyCrat Donating Member (721 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 06:51 PM
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Letter: Voting 'glitches' could derail democracy - TownOnline MA
Letter: Voting 'glitches' could derail democracy
http://www2.townonline.com/lynnfield/opinion/view.bg?articleid=126111
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Conspiracy theorists are coming out of the woodwork after last Tuesday's election results as claims of voter fraud, "glitches" and unfair practices are rampant on the Internet. Most of these theories have been summarily dismissed as the sour grapes of desperate, paranoid Democrats.

But in this election, just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean your vote wasn't systematically eliminated.

In fact, the sheer scope of this year's election's problems should alarm anyone who takes the time to look. In North Carolina, official voter records acknowledge that Craven County "lost" 4,500 votes to a computer problem. A nearby North Carolina county reported another 11,000-vote mistake. In Florida, Palm Beach and several other counties actually reported more votes than voters. It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to question the validity of these results.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 07:10 PM
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1. Yes, remember, it's just 'sour grapes'
except for the hundreds of anamolies that favored * without fail. Tens of thousands of overvotes, absentee ballots missing in Dem counties, Dem voting registrations found in trash, those pesky exit polls, voting machines counting backwards and giving * the vote no matter who you voted for, last minute polling place changes in Dem counties, flyers that urged Dems to vote on Nov. 3, secret vote tabulations with no scrutiny under the guise of 'Homeland Security', bought and paid for election officials and machine manufacturers, huge voting lines in Dem areas.... sore losers, sour grapes, whiners, in denial, crybabies. That's what we are all right.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 07:11 PM
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2. Yes, just remember, it's 'sour grapes'
Edited on Fri Nov-12-04 07:15 PM by louis-t
except for the hundreds of anamolies that favored * without fail. Tens of thousands of overvotes, absentee ballots missing in Dem counties, Dem voting registrations found in trash, those pesky exit polls, voting machines counting backwards and giving * the vote no matter who you voted for, last minute polling place changes in Dem counties, flyers that urged Dems to vote on Nov. 3, secret vote tabulations with no scrutiny under the guise of 'Homeland Security', bought and paid for election officials and machine manufacturers, huge voting lines in Dem areas.... sore losers, sour grapes, whiners, in denial, crybabies. That's what we are all right.

please delete, computer glitch
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-12-04 10:52 PM
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3. Superb letter
Thanks for posting it.
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