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Friday, July 30, 2004

From the Department of You've Got to be Fucking Kidding:
July 29, 2004 | Tallahassee, FL -- Republican Gov. Jeb Bush has tried for months to persuade Florida voters touchscreen voting machines are reliable. His own party apparently hasn't gotten the message.

The state GOP paid for a flier critical of the new technology and sent it to some south Florida voters where a primary election is scheduled next month.

"The new electronic voting machines do not have a paper ballot to verify your vote in case of a recount," the message states. "Make sure your vote counts. Order your absentee ballot today."

Here is the flier:

Florida is set to be Florida all over again. Electronic touchscreen voting is the greatest threat to a valid election, and given the volatile nature of debate these days, there will be riots if the voting machines go haywire on election day. Of course, the problem is that since there is no papertrail, we might not even know if they were to go haywire.
But hopefully after the speech that Kerry gave last night, and all the troubles on the radar for Shrub, the election won't be as close as last time.

Speaking of last night, since I was watching on ABC (their audio was better than PBS), I didn't realize that there was a problem with the balloon drop. Apparently CNN had a microphone near one of the production managers for the DNC, and he was heard on the air cussing about the balloons not dropping on time. Drudge has a short audio clip, but I'm not going to link to his shitty little page. If anyone knows where an extended clip is though, you just let me know.

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