Diebold vote tally irregularities in the New Hampshire primary?! WHEEE!

[thewayne]

"Multiple indications of vote fraud are beginning to pop up regarding the New Hampshire primary elections. Roughly 80% of New Hampshire precincts use Diebold machines, while the remaining 20% are hand counted. A Black Box Voting contributor has compiled a chart of results from hand counted precincts vs. results from machine counted precincts. In machine counted precincts, Clinton beat Obama by almost 5%. In hand counted precincts, Obama beat Clinton by over 4%, which closely matches the scientific polls that were conducted leading up to the election. Another issue is the Republican results from Sutton precinct. The final results showed Ron Paul with 0 votes in Sutton. The next day a Ron Paul supporter came forward claiming that both she and several of her family members had voted for Ron Paul in Sutton. Black Box Voting reports that after being asked about the discrepancy Sutton officials decided that Ron Paul actually received 31 votes in Sutton, but they were left off of the tally sheet due to 'human error.'"

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/10/1635225

I think everyone in the country should have to go to Washington, D.C. to vote by dropping a pebble in a box for their candidate of choice. Can't be much worse than what we have right now.

Comments

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Our system is absolutely insane. I don't mind the primary/general aspect, but I HATE THE FRICKIN' TWO PARTY SYSTEM! It's really a travesty when it comes to representation, it isn't even a choice of the lesser of two evils anymore (IMO): they're all evil.

The best thing they could do is to abolish the two party system. Smaller candidates can't even get into the televised debates because the networks don't think they'll pull enough viewers. Then people argue that if you have a half dozen different political parties in Congress that they won't be able to get anything done. Well... GOOD! It would force the congress-critters to compromise more and perhaps we'd get more reasonable legislation rather than crap like the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act rammed down our throats without Congress having enough time to read it to find out what it's about.

As they say, if con is the opposite of pro, then Congress is the opposite of Progress.

[zentraedi-shep.livejournal.com]

As they say, if con is the opposite of pro, then Congress is the opposite of Progress.

Nicely said... The party system here in Germany is degrading to a 2 parties system as well, we have our CDU (Christdemocratic Union) which could be considered our version of your Republicans and the SPD (Socialdemocratic Party of Deutschland (Germany)) which could be seen as your Democrats. Essentially, both are the same, and at the mo' both have the power since they had to form a grand coalition to be able to rule against the opposition of the other parties. The big ones get about 30% each during votes with the 40% remaining being devided among three other bigger parties and myriads of small ones that don't make the needed 5% to enter our federal chamber...

As you can see, in every democracy politics tend to be a (huge) bit like kindergarten...