RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Jim Davis
Absolutely true - my mistake. But still, whether it's a federal mandate (which as you point out it can't be) or a decision by the collected electoral management bodies of the states in this day and age we should be able to have a standardized method of voting and ballot presentation. Maybe it'll

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Nick McClure
I don't, I think Bush is far smarter than Kerry, now intelligent doesn't always mean makes the right choices. Bush has a Bachelors Degree in History from Yale, and an MBA from Harvard, and they let him fly fighter jets. Now you can say his daddy helped, but come on. Also, based on College entranc

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Nick McClure
But there is no such thing as a federal election, you have to remember, that if the state legislatures wanted to they could pick the electors each time. The Constitution states the following: Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equa

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Nick McClure
Have you seen the Census for this country? The Bush Campaign and the Swift Boat Vets and all that did their job. Made Kerry look weak, I think he is weak, I also think he is from Massachusetts, which will hurt somebody in the south. I also think his wife had something to do with it. He wouldn't au

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Nick McClure
Well, there are laws in most states that require companies to give people time off to vote. I mean in Ohio we are talking 150k votes and in Florida 300k votes, that is a pretty big margin. It seemed to me from my waiting in lines, the polls were packed early, and my precinct is VERY republican, m

RE: [political] How the republicans won the elections.

2004-11-06 Thread Nick McClure
OK, the IQ state thing is fake btw, those numbers are pretty old, at least 20 if I'm not mistaken. http://www.sq.4mg.com/stateIQ-income.htm -Original Message- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 3:56 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: [political] How

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Gruss Gott
> Robert wrote: > It is quite ironic that Democrats, for all their talk of being so > intellectually superior, > can't comprehend a simple thing like why more people don't vote for them. Can anyone really understand infinity? Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity; and I

Re: Bush appointing religious loonies to head FDA positions.

2004-11-06 Thread Kevin Graeme
> President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W. David Hager to head up > the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive > Health Drugs Advisory Committee. That's not new. That mysogynistic faith healer has been there since 2002. A lot of older articles of Bush's crap are obviously

Bush appointing religious loonies to head FDA positions.

2004-11-06 Thread Angel Stewart
" President Bush has announced his plan to select Dr. W. David Hager to head up the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. The committee has not met for more than two years, during which time its charter lapsed. As a result, the Bush Administration i

Xbox Games

2004-11-06 Thread Michael T. Tangorre
I was going through some of my Xbox games to list on eBay but thought I'd ask here first since we have a few gamers... Sega GT 2000 Ghost Recon GTA III GTA Vice City Let me know off list if you are interested (mtangorre at hotmail dot com | AIM: mtangorre). Mike ~~~

Re: Link Extractor

2004-11-06 Thread Michael Dinowitz
You mean in the latest threads page? If so, please expand on what you mean. >Note: this is just me making a note to myself. (disclaimer of sorts). >Thinking aloud if you will. > >On the Thread display for online discussions - can we add a right hand Box >with **extracted links** from the thread. a

RE: here we go

2004-11-06 Thread Jim Davis
I read that more as a joke (as in "I'm against getting married to another man purely for reasons of biology - besides, my wife would kill me") not a serious reason. I could be wrong tho'. Jim Davis -Original Message- From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
I don't think I am intellectually superior. I think Kerry is smarter than Bush. But I did see some things on the Democratic side that really displeased me. Dana On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:51:26 -0400, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is quite ironic that Democrats, for all their talk of b

Re: here we go

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
I am not trying to start a fight here, but do you mind sharing them? Or are they in the archives somewhere if I looked? I just do not understand why people get upset about this. My own feeling is more or less that this does not concern me, therefore this does not concern mebut evidently a lot o

Re: [political]...He didn't get it

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
getting "dab request" on this link On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 09:45:16 -0400, Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26834-2004Nov4.html?nav%3Dhcmodule&sub=AR > > Remember www.bugmenot.com for logins and passwords > > Don't mourn. Organize. > > Okay,

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
I don't think there is any great one-size-fits all solution to fraud except better organization, which was not present at Kerry headquarters in NM at least. I do think that demonstrated fraud should be prosecuted when possible. Pour encourager les autres :) However, however. The question of the Di

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Robert Munn
It is quite ironic that Democrats, for all their talk of being so intellectually superior, can't comprehend a simple thing like why more people don't vote for them. >Jim wrote: >Middle America sees CA and NY controlling over half of America's wealth and >media and responds by voting. Kerry wen

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Jim Davis
In my district in MA it's still Pen and Paper voting. Each district/state controls its own voting process. So while I can watch the aftermath carefully I've really no right to "protest" another districts use of whatever machines they want. Personally I'm all for country-wide consistency in, at l

Re: Sorry Everybody -- How Can We Make It Up To You?

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
it's there On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 22:01:26 -0500, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting nothing but a GoDaddy parked page. > > Hatton > > On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:08:52 -0400, Jochem van Dieten > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.sorryeverybody.com/ > > > > Jochem >

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
I am not going to get defensive; the thinking here was that an absentee ballot would create a paper trail. It does, but it's irrelevant because there is very strong feeling against election litigation, and the non-existent paper trail in other states makes the issue moot. But the point is not why

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Angel Stewart
Heh heh. You know what I don't understand? Where were both of you when they were getting those electronic voting machines? I know that it was in the news more than once. Did any of you request more information from their representatives? Did you write in and let your voice be heard? Did you t

RE: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Jim Davis
Of course the simple fact is that you don't have to be ".22 totin dumb fuck religious zealot evangelist morons" to have voted for Bush. It's that kind of talk that creates a reactionary backlash and it's that reactionary backlash that puts people like Bush in office. Middle America sees CA and NY

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread dana tierney
yes. Investigation not litigation at this point, as the Democratic candidate has conceded. Therefore it doesn't matter who won the vote But I think we need more safeguards than this in the next election. Also, Bernalillo County here is a poster child for why the strategy of requesting an absentee b

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Tony Weeg
the only justice that can come out of this election is for the country to do a massive re-vote, all by paper and by hand and two forms of identification. then and only then, do i think the true winner would arise. i cannot fathom that there are 57 million .22 totin dumb fuck religious zealot evan

Re: Why should we believe him now.

2004-11-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
and this is a problem? larry On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:24:11 -0600, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote: > > YAY! So is Washington (DC and State!) > > We may lose The South ... > > ~| Special thanks to the CF

Re: Online Backup recommendations

2004-11-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Ray Champagne wrote: > Does anyone use an online data backup service? No, we run BoxBackup ourselves: http://www.fluffy.co.uk/boxbackup/ Jochem ~| Special thanks to the CF Community Suite Gold Sponsor - CFHosting.net http://www.

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Gruss Gott
Robert wrote: > OK, I'll take a shot at this one. Republicans have jobs, so they vote after work, > and they didn't get counted in the exit polls > I've done a bit of campaign work and was told was the opposite: that Republicans typically had "management" jobs and were more likely to vote be

Re: Voter Fraud? Why are the exit polls so wrong in Florida?

2004-11-06 Thread Robert Munn
OK, I'll take a shot at this one. Republicans have jobs, so they vote after work, and they didn't get counted in the exit polls >Angel wrote: >--- >Published on Thursday, November 4, 2004 by CommonDreams.org/ > >http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1104-38.htm > >*The Ultimate