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FullCountNotRecount Donating Member (860 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:42 PM
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Which states have STRAIGHT PARTY voting?
We know Indiana and New Hampshire do now (where the dems straight party votes WERE NOT COUNTED CORRECTLY.)

I understand Wisconsin does also which is where Kerry might be able to pick up extra votes to show Bush did not have a mandate.
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WestHoustonDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:44 PM
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1. There were some problems in Harris County, Texas too
In some cases, voting straight Dems just didn't take. More than could be accounted for by user error. E-Slate techs had to "fix" some machines. Ooops!
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:52 PM
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4. I made sure not to vote straight ticket
cause you've got to support the libritarians in races with just a lib and a repub. I wonder how many local elections could be tipped if people that voted dem, voted lib when there isn't a dem
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WestHoustonDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:55 PM
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5. I don't know about anywhere else, but
in Harris county, you still reviewed the ballot after voting straight ticket and I added a vote for every non-Republican running in a race where there were no Dems running.
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TheFarseer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 11:46 PM
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17. also
it's alot of fun to skip over all those races with only a republican and not vote for anyone. Yeah, you can review all your selections but it seems like it would be hard to just look at that and know which races had a non-repub candidate and which only had one candidate but maybe it looked different if you put stright ticket.
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errorbells Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 10:12 PM
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10. re: support the libertarians in races with just a lib and a repub
My husband and I did that too!
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:58 PM
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6. same problem in 2002, straight D's eliminated Ron Kirk's name
from the confirmation screen. Would you believe it was in a black precinct in Houston? Coincidence I tells ya, coincidence.

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errorbells Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 10:05 PM
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8. problems in Harris County
Hi WestHD,

I could not go this morning but will try again later.

A few days ago I wrote the Chron Editor about that woman
I saw on TV here that had a machine give her the opposite vote.

I have been darkening his email of late about voting irregularities and I really
wanted to know who that woman was and if there were more like her...hope he isn't around here....blow my cover:hippie:

Was there a sad crowd at the meeting?

When I talk with folks on the street they seem to agree that the E-Slate is not good...or rather they don't trust it.
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WestHoustonDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 11:27 PM
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15. Hi errorbells
Too bad you couldn't make it. The meeting was really energizing, so much so that I decided to go to the HCDP strategy meeting in the afternoon where I ran into PDittie & spouse, merci_me & spouse and kedrys. You'll have to come to next month's WHCDP meeting, which I believe will be on 12/8. Lot's of good people will be there.

As far as voting irregularities, many have been reported to the justice dept. and investigations are ongoing.
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errorbells Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:14 AM
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18. all i can say is...
FAR OUT!!!! :wow: PDiddy & spouse, merci_me & spouse and kedrys

Is the WHCDP next door to the Westhollow Hotel?

We were there for Kerry's acceptance speech....

Were you there. too!


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WestHoustonDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 08:50 AM
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20. No, I wasn't there
Edited on Sun Nov-21-04 08:51 AM by WestHoustonDem
the WHCDP is part of HCDP which is on the North Loop & Ella. We meet at the Tracey Gee. Yesterday the HCDP had the strategy session and it was at the CWA building on Jefferson. I don't like going downtown, but it was worth it.

I ended up watching Kerry's acceptance speech at home.

I just noticed it. Congrats on your star!
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 11:17 PM
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14. Did it automatically change a Dem vote to one for DeLay?
Because there's not a doubt in my mind that he did not get his next term because more people voted for him.
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:47 PM
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2. Alabama does
And we use ES&S machines.
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 09:52 PM
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3. Missouri does
I'm glad I didn't click on it. I voted each individual name.
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errorbells Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 10:07 PM
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9. re: I voted each individual name
So did I!
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 01:10 AM
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19. so did I
But only because I like to do it that way. The fix never entered my mind. I just like to vote in each individual race. In the past I've voted for one Republican (state office) and for a few independants. I'll never vote pug again, though I can't promise I won't vote indy or green or libertarian in "minor" races in the future.
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 10:04 PM
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7. Michigan has had it for 110 years
A law abolishing it was passed into law and signed by John Engler, but it was challenged via referendum and defeated in 2002.
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demodonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 10:21 PM
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11. Pennsylvania -- The P stands for Pull the lever eom
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Jane Eyre Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 10:28 PM
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12. NC, with a twist
North Carolina law requires that the presidential race not be a part of a straight party ticket vote. So if you vote a straight Democratic ticket and also want to vote for president, you must do that separately.

This was done about 30 years ago, and the Dems have no one but themselves to blame for it. The state Dems wanted to seperate themselves from a national ticket headed by McGovern, or so the story goes. Seems to have worked, since we have pretty consistently had a solidly Democratic state government but have not been a "blue state" since Jimmy Carter's first term.
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 11:14 PM
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13. Montana does NOT n/t
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GetTheRightVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 11:34 PM
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16. When I was in Iowa there was a straight party vote

I do not know if they still have it though. This does not matter since half the country does not like Bush, he does not have a mandate, but I do believe he will go over board and then the people of this country will want to get him out of there similiar to Nixon.
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spoogly Donating Member (75 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 09:54 AM
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21. Wisconsin does have straight party voting option
Funny thing. I was going to blacken the circle to vote straight party and at the last minute decided that I didn't trust it and went through each race and voted for the Democrat individually. I guess that might have been a good instinct after all.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 12:31 PM
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22. Interesting thread
thanks.

:kick:
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