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"BUSH WILL BRING YOU DEMOCRACY EVEN IF HE HAS TO KILL YOUR WHOLE FAMILY TO DO IT" -- TACTICALTEES.COM
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electionline Weekly - November 16, 2006
From electionline.org - Thursday, November 16, 2006 electionline Weekly - November 16, 2006 I. In Focus This Week Election Day with Chuck and Tom M. Mindy Moretti They were the longest of lines and they were the shortest of lines. There was coffee being sold; there weren't enough places to sit down. They had a 90 minute wait before them; they had less than a 10 minute wait before them. One was going directly to vote center heaven and one, well, was not going that way. Chuck Woodford and Tom Koetting, college buddies from West Virginia University, now live about 60 miles apart in Colorado - Chuck in Denver and Tom in Larimer County. Although they've shared many similar experiences in life - college, career, family - what they experienced on Election Day 2006 couldn't have been more different. Washington Park Recreation Center, Denver Once inside the gym, Chuck got into another line to check in for voting. There were about 10 people left in front him before it was his turn to check in when suddenly, all activity seemed to halt inside the polling place. After advancing no further in line for several minutes Chuck and others in began to sense there was a problem. And what a problem it was. The system to check in voters had gone down citywide. About five chairs were offered, but not nearly enough for the many people in line. As time wore on folks waiting in line began to talk. When one voter took out his cell phone and placed a call, a volunteer quickly came and told him that talking on phones in the polling place - even with the voting halted - was discouraged. "As you can imagine after waiting so long in line we all did start casually talking to one another, just flippant comments from time to time, nothing too deep or personal. One man in front of me said, 'We should be using paper ballots.' I called him a misguided visionary and we had a brief laugh at that," Chuck said. Time began to drag on and Chuck, who has a two-year old son, marveled at the overall patience and good will of his fellow voters, especially the children accompanying their parents. "I was pleasantly surprised at how tolerant we all were of the computer delay," Chuck said. "Now, granted we were about 15 feet away from the crashed computers so we could watch the progress as it happened. I'm sure it must have been very frustrating out in the hallway wondering what was going on." During his more than 30 minute wait for the computers to come back up, Chuck said he only saw one voter walk away - a gentleman who ripped up his voter card and threw it in the trash as he left the building. Once the computer system was back up and running, Chuck quickly made his way to the voting machine where he cast his ballot and headed about his day. "After check-in, I immediately went to a voting station and cast my ballot with no trouble whatsoever. One of the volunteers escorted me to the station and talked me through the whole process, what buttons to press, how to change my mind and how to cast my vote once I had finished marking my ballot," Chuck said. "The voting process itself was flawless; it was just getting to that point which was obnoxious." So, after all of that, what does Chuck think of the new vote center concept? "I understand the vote center concept as it cuts down drastically on the number of volunteers needed but, seriously, how do you not then stock up on as many laptops and check-in volunteers as you possibly can at each center?" Chuck asked. "I absolutely will not think twice about voting next time, I'll just be a bit smarter as to when I go vote. And I'll make sure I have a good two-plus hours to do it." Total time to vote: 90 minutes. Ace Hardware, Harmony Road, Larimer County Tom and his wife took time off from work so they could vote together. They chose the vote center in the shopping center because it was close to their home and had plenty of available parking. This wasn't the first time Tom had used a vote center - he voted at the same shopping center in 2004 - so he knew what to expect. The first time used a vote center he "thought it was heaven. What smart person figured this out?" When Tom and his wife arrived, the line was about 40-people deep, but moving quickly. Tom noticed that while a man was attempting to sell coffee to voters, the line was moving too quickly for anyone to stop and buy any. Tom and his wife were checked in quickly, voted and were out the door quickly. So impressed by the experience, Tom said has crossed party lines to support County Clerk Scott Doyle (R), the man who implemented vote centers in Larimer. "Voting was as smooth as glass in America's best voting county," Tom said "Scott Doyle is a great clerk. I voted for him again. Not all of my votes went to the left. Sometimes good government is just good government." Total time to vote: 15 minutes.
Doug Chapin The 2006 vote opened the door to changes in future elections as voters picked new secretaries of state in 12 states - including changes of party in seven states. Though the jobs have a number of other facets, many of the campaigns for the position focused extensively on election administration issues, especially in states where incumbent secretaries were defeated for re-election:
In four other states, the incumbent's bid for another office opened up the seat to a party switch. While Democrats succeeded in their bids to retake Congress, battles for top election posts resulted in a tie in four states:
In five other states, outgoing Secretaries were replaced with candidates of the same party:
Further changes are also possible as new governors, mayors and state and local officials make their decisions about retaining or removing the men and women responsible for managing elections at the state and local level. II. Election Reform News This Week
III. Opinion This Week National: Election Day, II, electronic voting, voting security, Diebold, uniform rules, voting systems Some sites require registration
electionline Weekly and electionline.org ALERTS are produced by the staff of electionline.org, a non-partisan, non-advocacy research effort supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of Richmond . More information about the Project and up-to-the-minute news on election reform throughout the week can be found at electionline.org. Read More 
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This is HUGE! Out Damn Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell By Ray McGovern August 15, 2008
Learn the REAL Truth About the Conflict in Georgia and the Partial Truth the Main Stream Media is Selling You UPDATED: Ron Suskind: White House ordered forgery to link al-Qaeda/Saddam to 9/11 attacks Please Help Send Karl Rove to Jail !EMERGENCY ACTION! - PORT MILITARIZATION RESISTANCE IN TACOMA NOW! Federal Court: U.S. Can Jail Civilians Indefinitely WITHOUT Being Charged with a Crime No War on Iran! Why the US has targeted Iran U.S. Imperialist Agenda and the Deepening Crisis in Iraq U.S. Military recruiters target children with violence EX-ABU GHRAIB INMATES SUE US FIRMS FOR TORTURE Civilization's golden era is teetering on collapse United States attempts to Weaken Mexican Sovereignty Habeas Corpus Civil Right Restored by U.S. Supreme Court Bush Knew About Torture Techniques AND Approved Them DU - Depleted Uranium: Poisoning Our Planet ROGUE ECONOMICS - Capitalism's New Reality Fossil Fools Day, April 1st, 2008: International Day of Action Against the Fossil Fuels Industry Bush Consolidates the National Security State Discovery Channel Televises its Own HIPOCRACY TELEVISION, A WEAPON OF WAR, AIMED AT YOU! YOUR Laptop, Cellphone Data Copied by U.S. Border Agents Discovery Channel drops its plans to air documentary about the US military torturing an innocent Afghan taxi driver to death because it's too ''controversial'' FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including ''Shoot to Kill'' WITHOUT REPERCUSSION Iranian nuclear ambitions are being sponsored by... the United States State Department C.I.A. Destroyed Tapes as Judge Sought Interrogation Data New Study: Extremely High Temperatures during the WTC destruction - Eight-author paper (including 5 Ph.D's) Iraq Conflict Has Killed A Million Iraqis: Survey HELP Defend Free Speech Rights on the National Mall URGENT: Oppose Telecom Immunity and Contact Your Senator Loose NUKES: Secret ILLEGAL U.S. Government Backroom Deals PROOF: Plans for North American Union (NAU) are REAL Sign the PETITION to Impeach! FAIR ELECTIONS, VOTE FRAUD?? Evidence of stolen election at New Hampshire Primaries? ABSOLUTE MUST READ - Sibel Edmonds Case - Benazir Bhutto and The 'Islamic' Bomb Bush Plans to Sell Bombs to Country of 9/11 Hijackers |
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