Re: Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Vogt

Tim May wrote:
 The claim is that if they can "prove" they were unable to have them
 postmarked by the time polls closed in Florida, due to the violence
 or whatever, that maybe they will still be allowed in. 

how can you be unable to do something as simple as sending a letter by a
deadline you know like several months ahead?




Re: Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-13 Thread Tim May

At 11:28 AM + 11/13/00, Ken Brown wrote:
Tim May wrote:

  The solution has been obvious for a long time: absentee ballots must
  be received by the close of business on the polling day. Those who
  know they are going to be out of their voting area must mail their
  ballots in time to arrive. This eliminates this particular hazard.

When I was listening to the news last Tuesday it took me a while to
realise that this *wasn;'t* the case. It seems so sort of obvious you'd
think it would have been adopted years ago.
...

Yeah, it's bizarre. Absentee ballots are still arriving from overseas 
locations (and other states, though the USPS is pretty efficient 
these days and most should have arrived by last Thursday if they were 
actually postmarked by Tuesday). Some of the ballots from Qatar, 
Zimbabwe, Mongolia, Israel, and all of the other various places are 
presumably still sitting in post offices in Dushambe, Timbuktu, and 
Haifa. And some are on transport planes. And some are now in the post 
offices in Florida.

Hell, Yahood Barak may have even brought in some of the Florida 
absentee ballots on ZOG Force One. Any doubts about what Shin Bet and 
Mossad managed to do with those absentee ballots once the closeness 
of the election was established while the absentee ballots were still 
on ZOG soil?

I was amused to see the "high security" on the absentee ballots 
received by the election offices: a wooden box with a _Masterlock_ 
key lock, one of those $3.99-for-two locks one sees at Home Depot or 
the local hardware store.

Forget "National Technical Means" to get through these locks...any 
two-bit thief could pick one of these locks and either alter the 
ballots or insert new ones. (Spoiling the ballots of one's opponent 
would be a lot easier.)

The election may hinge (see my post on "Causality and Close 
Elections") on these uncounted absentee ballots sitting in Florida.

Of course, it is now looking very likely that the "hand count in 
heavily Democrat-trending counties" will prevail. As all numerate 
folks have noted, resampling of selected counties is inherently 
biased. The Democrats _will_ pick up a few thousand more votes over 
what Bush picks up, just as the Republicans might have picked up a 
few thousand more votes over the Democrats had a Republican-leaning 
county like Duval County been resampled manually.

Which is just as well. I'd rather see Al Gore and his New York tag 
team of Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Tribe steal this election. Then 
we can get on with the business of "scorced earth" and sending 
hundreds of thousands of these criminals to the wall.

--Tim May
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Re: Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-13 Thread Ken Brown

Tim May wrote:
 
 The solution has been obvious for a long time: absentee ballots must
 be received by the close of business on the polling day. Those who
 know they are going to be out of their voting area must mail their
 ballots in time to arrive. This eliminates this particular hazard.

When I was listening to the news last Tuesday it took me a while to
realise that this *wasn;'t* the case. It seems so sort of obvious you'd
think it would have been adopted years ago.

Back in the 1940s and 50s bookies in England used to take bets on
photofinishes. One man made himself a fortune, by always standing
exactly on the finish line waiting for a photo-finishs in which the
horse farthest from him had crossed the line first. The bookies stopped
taking his bets.

In UK (for what its worth) postal votes have to be in by a fixed date
that is up to a week before the election day. They are opened in the
presence of the candidate (or their agent), counted, then the returning
officer and the agents agree on the total, fill in a form, sign it,  and
the ballot papers and the forms are sealed (hey, a protocol! Almost
on-topic!)

Spoiled ballots are also handled by the candidates agents on the night
of the election.  They stand across the tables from where the votes are
being counted (hand counting of course, none of your new-fangled stuff)
and are allowed to look but not touch. Any dubious papers are discussed.
Usually you manage to agree on how to count them. 

Ken




Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-10 Thread Tim May

Now we hear of calls urging dual-citizenship residents of 
ZOG-occupied Palestine to send in absentee ballots to Florida, 
especially for the estimated 400 dual-citizenship, or visiting 
tourists, from Palm Beach County.

The claim is that if they can "prove" they were unable to have them 
postmarked by the time polls closed in Florida, due to the violence 
or whatever, that maybe they will still be allowed in. (And I 
wouldn't put it past the ZOG to rig the postmarks and then put the 
ballots on a fast jet to Florida.)

According to a Reuters story,

"

Friday November 10 12:52 PM ET
U.S. Absentee Voters in Mideast 'Unknown Quantity'


By Danielle Haas

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Absentee voters living in Israel and 
Palestinian territories could influence the outcome of the razor-edge 
U.S. presidential election but are unlikely to be able to vote late, 
a U.S. embassy official said on Friday.

Some analysts had speculated that voters registered in Florida but 
living in Israel and Palestinian-ruled areas could still send in 
ballot papers if they proved they were unable to postmark them by the 
November 7 deadline.

"


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Re: Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-10 Thread Bill Stewart

So do military personnel who are officially Florida residents
get Extra Slack on their absentee ballots if they're overseas?
They're as likely to vote for the Ruling Party than Israelis are.


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Re: Late-postmarked ballots from ZOG-occupied Palestine

2000-11-10 Thread Tim May

At 4:13 PM -0800 11/10/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
So do military personnel who are officially Florida residents
get Extra Slack on their absentee ballots if they're overseas?
They're as likely to vote for the Ruling Party than Israelis are.


I have no idea.

The solution has been obvious for a long time: absentee ballots must 
be received by the close of business on the polling day. Those who 
know they are going to be out of their voting area must mail their 
ballots in time to arrive. This eliminates this particular hazard.

--Tim May

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