[ale] [OT] Diebold voting machines

[George L. Allen]

So... absentee ballots only count if they Really count, but then they REALLY count.

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:18:41PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> Not quite right.
> 
> They typically only count the absentees if they can swing the election.
> 
> So if it is 100,000 for candidate A and 110,000 for candidate B in the
> live poll, then they will only count the absentees if there are 10,000
> or more of them.
> 
> Greg
> 
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Adrin <adrin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Remember FL...
> >
> > I seem to recall that absentee are only counted in the case of a close
> > election, (Re-count).  Which seems odd enough to make my head hurt.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:08 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> >> ABSOLUTELY! It makes a paper trail. That's the recommended method here
> >> in GA.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Thompson Freeman
> >> <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> >>         Since I think my precinct uses those same machines, and I
> >>         seriously doubt that the local media will properly cover
> >>         this travesty, Maybe I should consider voting absentee??
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>         On 08/22/2008 02:50:53 PM, Sean wrote:
> >>         > Turns out it wasn't "anti-virus" software at all!
> >>         > <sarcasm> Who woulda guessed? <end sarcasm>
> >>         >
> >>         >
> >>         >
> >>         > Those Ohio voting machines that lost votes apparently did
> >>         > so
> >>         > because of a software bug. Here's the Slashdot story:
> >>         >
> >>         > http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/22/136215
> >>         >
> >>         >
> >>         > Sean
> >>         >
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