The US Presidential election thread

[Darth Penguin]

only 1461 days to go.....

[gryphon]

What do you all think of this?

http://www.facebook.com/swagbucks/po...t=feed_comment

[Natalka]

gryphon - that's awesome!! I don't have a FB under my name, or I'd answer YES too!

Just goes to show that the propaganda that women aren't for Romney is a bunch of bunk - it was nice to see so many Women for Romney signs at the rallies over the past week!

*Such coincidence I saw this posted just as I listened to a CNN interview with Mia Love, Republican mayor of Saratoga Springs, who is running for Congress in Utah. She's 36, Mormon, daughter of Haitian immigrants.
If she gets elected, she'll be the first black female representative to serve in the house.

[gryphon]

gryphon - that's awesome!! I don't have a FB under my name, or I'd answer YES too!

Just goes to show that the propaganda that women aren't for Romney is a bunch of bunk - it was nice to see so many Women for Romney signs at the rallies over the past week!

*Such coincidence I saw this posted just as I listened to a CNN interview with Mia Love, Republican mayor of Saratoga Springs, who is running for Congress in Utah. She's 36, Mormon, daughter of Haitian immigrants.
If she gets elected, she'll be the first black female representative to serve in the house.

1st black REPUBLICAN woman

[Natalka]

I guess I needed to be more specific - Love would be the first black Republican woman elected to Congress should she win Tuesday.

[Darth Penguin]

So...some women are going to vote for Romney...no big suprise there...

I'm sure some black people will vote for him and some gays too.

I'm not going to change my political views due to a straw poll on FB and I don't think any-one else will either.

[TaraF]

I am not surprised that voter suppression tactics are already being revealed in todays voting. *sighs* Touch screen voting machines are being removed in PA after a voter took out his cell phone to record a switch in voting, apparently when he touched Obama, it defaulted to Romney for the vote. You can see the video below or you can read a frew of the articles as well.



http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machi...ne-for-romney/

[gryphon]

I am not surprised that voter suppression tactics are already being revealed in todays voting. *sighs* Touch screen voting machines are being removed in PA after a voter took out his cell phone to record a switch in voting, apparently when he touched Obama, it defaulted to Romney for the vote. You can see the video below or you can read a frew of the articles as well.



http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/06/machi...ne-for-romney/

Apparently its been followed up on and it was a glitch. Its too obvious to actually do it.

There were also machines registering romney votes as being for obama.

[Darth Penguin]

Oregon Department of Justice investigates alleged ballot tampering

A temporary elections employee allegedly tampered with ballots to cast additional votes for Republican candidates in Clackamas County, where several hotly contested races could tilt the balance of power in cities, the county and even the state legislature.

The Oregon Department of Justice confirmed that it has launched a criminal investigation but did not identify the female employee or disclose how many ballots might be affected.

The department is investigating the matter promptly since the Nov. 6 election is just days away, said Jeff Manning, spokesman for the Department of Justice. "Just given the timing, obviously, this is a high priority case for us at this point," he said.

[TaraF]

Well gryphon, regardless if it was "only" 1 or 2 machines and regardless of whether the votes were being switched to Romney or Obama and regardless if it was intentional or "just a glitch", this should NOT be happening in an election to determine who will be the next President of a country. It's completely unacceptable, especially if swing states (which PA is one) are as close as they are saying. How do we not know people before this gentlemen and others touched their choice and heard the noise and didn't check to make sure it actually said their candidate? How do we know that they didn't approach an election official working the polls to report the error and were simply told, "if you clicked romney he got your vote don't worry". Too many questions, too many errors and "glitches" happening at a time when people don't trust their Governments and those running for office.

[TaraF]

Darth...I want to scream! It really seems that Democracy is but an illusion anymore.

[gryphon]

Well gryphon, regardless if it was "only" 1 or 2 machines and regardless of whether the votes were being switched to Romney or Obama and regardless if it was intentional or "just a glitch", this should NOT be happening in an election to determine who will be the next President of a country. It's completely unacceptable, especially if swing states (which PA is one) are as close as they are saying. How do we not know people before this gentlemen and others touched their choice and heard the noise and didn't check to make sure it actually said their candidate? How do we know that they didn't approach an election official working the polls to report the error and were simply told, "if you clicked romney he got your vote don't worry". Too many questions, too many errors and "glitches" happening at a time when people don't trust their Governments and those running for office.

Im saying it was a bad machine. If they were truly trying to cheat, why make it obvious?

[TaraF]

Im saying it was a bad machine. If they were truly trying to cheat, why make it obvious?

We don't know for certain if the glitch was intentional or not. Second, a programmer at the end of the day is only human and can make errors. But as I mentioned,even if it isn't intentional it doesn't excuse it. Considering cases of election fraud and questionable practices are popping up all of the United States and usually involving Republicans, I'm not surprised. *sighs*

[gryphon]

We don't know for certain if the glitch was intentional or not. Second, a programmer at the end of the day is only human and can make errors. But as I mentioned,even if it isn't intentional it doesn't excuse it. Considering cases of election fraud and questionable practices are popping up all of the United States and usually involving Republicans, I'm not surprised. *sighs*

And what about the instances where the glitch sent the vote to obama?

[DaveP]

And what about the instances where the glitch sent the vote to obama?

Yup, there were a number of those in the early voting. It's not convenient to mention those though because it doesn't feed into the conspiracy that the big bad republicans are stealing the election. Puh-lease.