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Posted by: Candida 1 year, 1 month ago

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Candida1 year, 1 month ago

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RickyDawkins: "people take this presidential stuff wayyy to seriously..."

I hope you are joking Ricky. After all, it's only the future of your country, and to some extent the world, that's at stake here.

I just can't understand why Americans put up with these election machines? How much do they cost? What do they achieve? Is the tabulation of the results faster than with paper ballots? I don't think so. We have our results within hours, and the 2000 election results were delayed for weeks. What's even worse is that they breed distrust and hostility among the people.

Has anyone ever done a cost/benefit analysis on them? I doubt it. Otherwise they probably would have been thrown out long ago.

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  DeauxNut1 year, 1 month ago
  
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  Don't you see the sarcasm aimed at all the really stupid and nonsense posts submitted only for the ilk that always finds something to comment about? All the same usual regulars. Next up will be Palin involvement in the busted machines.
  
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    truthiness1 year, 1 month ago
    
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    "next up will be Palin involvement in the busted machines"
    -I knew it! that whole hockey mom thing was just a fake out, she's really a computer programmer working on rigging the election. a ringer. that's what all that winking was about! damn you Palin!!!!
    
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  memestryker1 year, 1 month ago
  
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  To put this in perspective, human and mechanical errors generally far outweigh electronic ones. Most of the newer machines don't spit out the card until you successfully register your vote, so it just takes watchful election judges to make sure you don't leave your card in the machine.
  
  I predict states returning to paper will be sorry.
  
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