2012 US General Election Discussions: Start to Finish

[SelfMadeMan]

Originally Posted by lusciouskiwi

I'm in Minnesota, and one of Stacy's cousins was telling me that she was sad she wasn't registered to vote - I said "who would you vote for?" and she said "Obama of course, plus I don't want them to amend the constitution to define marriage as a man and a woman only..." So I said, "I'm happy to tell you that we have same day registration here, and I'll be right there!" So I took her to vote

(Yes - I fully admit had she said she was voting for Romney, I wouldn't have been so helpful, lol)

[GraffitiBoi]

Originally Posted by SelfMadeMan

I'm in Minnesota, and one of Stacy's cousins was telling me that she was sad she wasn't registered to vote - I said "who would you vote for?" and she said "Obama of course, plus I don't want them to amend the constitution to define marriage as a man and a woman only..." So I said, "I'm happy to tell you that we have same day registration here, and I'll be right there!" So I took her to vote

(Yes - I fully admit had she said she was voting for Romney, I wouldn't have been so helpful, lol)

Thankfully I'm in MN too. I forgot to register after I moved and made a small change to my legal name. They are pretty good about registering there. Had to make sure I didn't have any Vote No propoganda on me or my car though. They are refusing to let anyone vote if they are wearing any political propoganda or if they are parked within 100 feet from the polls and have stuff on their car.

[SelfMadeMan]

Originally Posted by GraffitiBoi

Thankfully I'm in MN too. I forgot to register after I moved and made a small change to my legal name. They are pretty good about registering there. Had to make sure I didn't have any Vote No propoganda on me or my car though. They are refusing to let anyone vote if they are wearing any political propoganda or if they are parked within 100 feet from the polls and have stuff on their car.

Oh wow! I got LUCKY then! I was parked right out front with a Vote No sticker and another big stop sign sticker that says "STOP the Republican War on Women"

[GraffitiBoi]

Originally Posted by SelfMadeMan

Oh wow! I got LUCKY then! I was parked right out front with a Vote No sticker and another big stop sign sticker that says "STOP the Republican War on Women"

You did get lucky! One of my friends who has the Vote No wrap on her car was told to park somewhere else. She went the required 100 feet away from the doors and parked right at the entrance to the parking lot - first thing people saw pulling in was her car with Vote No HUGE all over it!

A church that is a polling site here in Minneapolis has signs promoting vote yes. Voters called the hotline to complain and the church was forced to take the signs down.

If the amendment passes I'm moving out of MN as soon as work can transfer me. They know to expect my transfer request depending on the results. LOL

[Words]

Originally Posted by GraffitiBoi

Thankfully I'm in MN too. I forgot to register after I moved and made a small change to my legal name. They are pretty good about registering there. Had to make sure I didn't have any Vote No propoganda on me or my car though. They are refusing to let anyone vote if they are wearing any political propoganda or if they are parked within 100 feet from the polls and have stuff on their car.

Is that legal?

I know things are different here in the UK, but surely, that can't be legal.

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[Novelafemme]

Originally Posted by Words

Is that legal?

I know things are different here in the UK, but surely, that can't be legal.

Words

It is legal. The same goes here in Arizona.

[Words]

Originally Posted by Novelafemme

It is legal. The same goes here in Arizona.

Wow. I never knew. Thanks!

Words

[chefhmboyrd]

i voted early, little over a week ago.
i am just so ready to start forgetting about mittens and his whole pack of rabid right wing racist homophobes.
Obama will be victorious.

[Rockinonahigh]

I just got back from voteing,while I was in line wating to have them check my ID I was ask by the person in line behind me if I knew what I was voteing for cause I didnt look like in was in the right place.I didnt even give them anser just handed the official at the desk my licence then went on a voted.

[Kobi]

Ok is 11am. Waiting on the Bulldog update.

Have tried watching the coverage but it was messing up my peace.

Anything I want to know about?

[LipstickLola]

Originally Posted by Kobi

Ok is 11am. Waiting on the Bulldog update.

Have tried watching the coverage but it was messing up my peace.

Anything I want to know about?

No peace here! I've bitten my last nail and now I'm baking, *newsflash* I don't bake!!
I keep returning to the different cable channels and switching back and forth, this has become my routine the past several weeks as I"ve recovered from joint replacement, I really really need to get a life!!! sigh....cannot wait til 7 pm (east coast time)

[LipstickLola]

Does anyone else believe the election will take longer than today to decide??

[GraffitiBoi]

Originally Posted by LipstickLola

Does anyone else believe the election will take longer than today to decide??

Yes. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are 'errors' or 'problems' with some of the polls and recounts are demanded... blah blah blah

[LipstickLola]

Originally Posted by GraffitiBoi

Yes. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are 'errors' or 'problems' with some of the polls and recounts are demanded... blah blah blah

I'm gearing my mind up for this as well, most especially the precincts where Obama wins. Thing is, I'm outta valium, OMG

[BullDog]

Happy Election Day everyone!

Belle woke me up way too early, so I have been sitting in front of the tv in a daze drinking coffee.

I am feeling a bit nervous but confident.

I don't have anything new really. I think Obama will win Ohio but don't want to totally rely on it, so I am looking forward to seeing results from Virginia. People in lines in Florida look fired up!

[DMW]

My past experience,2000,2004,08 looking into the voting tallies....bbc is pretty damn accurate. And the sec. state. office posts results for each state.



http://www.blackboxvoting.org/(CO) 11/2012 - COLORADO SETS THE STAGE FOR A BOGUS ELECTION - Colorado election integrity and transparency is now officially out the window, with a series of corruption protection rules and new laws.

1. Let's begin with the unflappable Donetta Davidson, who collaborated with convicted embezzler Jeffrey Dean(1) to remove voter privacy, through a contract specification that required him to redo his absentee mail software in order to embed a method to tie voted ballots to the voters. This shifty business, which now includes all absentee ballots cast on Hart eSlate machines, has led to a blockade on ALL Colorado election accounting records (see #4, below).

2. Next, in a move that has most of us scratching our heads, Colorado Sec. State Gessler proposed new rules in December 2011 to remove requirements for continuous video surveillance.(2) Though billed as "cost saving," note that most video surveillance nowadays is simply piped into digital files stored on a Web site. Since cameras are already installed, there is no significant cost savings in allowing non-continuous surveillance.

3. Sec. State Gessler also decided to reduce the number of seals on voting machines,(2) to the chagrin of election integrity groups like Voter Action, whose investigations and litigation demonstrated vulnerabilities requiring the seals in the first place. The "cost savings" in this measure can be counted in pennies.

4. A number of protective accounting measures crucial for evaluating election tampering have been taken off the table though a new law to block election-related public records examination.

Donetta Davidson led the lobbying for this law. Davidson had become a commissioner of the U.S. Election Assistence Commission, then took a step down to take over the Colorado Clerks Association. In this capacity she led a fight to block the media and citizens from examining the ballots. And no wonder: She knew that due to changes made under her administration, private companies had marks embedded on the ballots enabling them to harvest data tying votes to voters.

Thanks to a lawsuit by Colorado citizen Marilyn Marks, of The Citizen Center, sponsored and assisted by Black Box Voting, the Colorado Supreme Court affirmed right to examine ballots. Marks was shocked when she discovered that identifying marks on the ballots allowed her to immediately associate every voted ballot with the voter who cast it. Marks, The Citizen Center, (and Black Box Voting) are now involved in litigation to permanently prohibit this harvesting of personal political information. In the interim, Sec. State Gessler has required that the identifiers be removed for November 2012 only.

With ballot examination affirmed to be in the public domain, Davidson's next move was to block ballot examination until after all remedies had expired. Using her clout, she lobbied successfully for the removal of ballots -- AND OTHER CRUCIAL ELECTION RECORDS, SUCH AS POLL LISTS -- from any access by election watchdogs until 45 days after the election.(3)

One telltale sign of election tampering is when thousands more votes than voters show up. But in Colorado, neither the media nor the public will be allowed to examine the poll lists or the list of names for voters said to have voted absentee, until too late to do anything about discrepancies.

5. And then there is the matter of alleged Romney ties to the second-biggest voting machine manufacturer in America. These connections are being minimized by Internet outlets like Snopes, but the straight truth is that Hart Intercivic, the firm that supplies two-thirds of Colorado counties with their voting machines, is now owned by a spin-off of Bain & Company (H.I.G. Capital).(4)

A majority of Hart's directors are now H.I.G. guys, and the directors of H.I.G. are Romney bundlers and donors who don't hedge their bets by donating to any other presidential candidate.

This isn't the first time Romney has had his buddies in charge of crucial election processes this year. Some weeks after the misreported figures in the Iowa caucus, which incorrectly cited Romney as the winner, Black Box Voting uncovered that Romney staffers had been brought in to run the Iowa Caucus, and the Nevada Caucus too. Besides heading Romney campaign functions, these guys were associated with an odious Colorado political firm which narrowly escaped prosecution for maliciously misleading political ads.(5)

And the Romney affiliation with Hart Intercivic doesn't rule out his buddies -- or Obama's buddies -- or George Soros -- or the Chinese, for that matter -- owning the other companies. Election Systems & Software (ES&S) does not reveal who its owners are, and we don't know who owns Dominion either. ES&S directly handles voting machines in three Colorado counties; it co-produces elections on the old Diebold equipment with Dominion, with ES&S supplying technicians in some U.S. locations and Dominion in others. Dominion owns Sequoia Voting Systems (or does it? No one seems to be quite sure...), used in large... More