re: Maybe I'll switch sides...

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Tom Brosz — 2/12/2004 7:30:17 AM (archived)

I didn't want to drag the 2000 election into this.

All I know is that a perfectly good voting system that had worked well for years in my precinct--punch cards--was tossed out in favor of oddball computers at ruinous cost and complexity because some dimbulbs couldn't figure out how to effectively poke a prescored hole in a card with a sharp object, even with special equipment, aid readily available, and new cards handy if you screwed one up.*

And I know who was pushing it on us, trying to convince everyone that the system wasn't working. It wasn't the Republicans. Yet the latter are getting all the crap thrown at them for trying to somehow "fix" the new computer systems.

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*I'm sorry, but someone who can't figure something out at that level of simplicity probably shouldn't be picking our leaders in the first place. I realize that this is not a popular view, since the objective for most politicians is to have the voters be as stupid as humanly possible.

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Media: "liberal? Sure we're liberal. What's your point?" - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 5:20:15 PM
- If it were true, it would make sense. - Bowser - 2/14/2004 2:18:52 AM
- re: O'Reilly - Raoul - 2/13/2004 10:21:46 PM
- Looks to me - Tony - 2/10/2004 6:56:49 PM
  - If Bush loses, I'll just blame it on the Diebold voting machines. ;) - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 9:31:22 PM
    - re: "Democrats' insisting" - that would be the courts - alcaray - 2/10/2004 11:27:48 PM
      - re: that would be the courts - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 11:43:27 PM
        
        Something really bad happened in '00 - alcaray - 2/11/2004 4:21:02 PM
        
        Yes, but fortunately the Florida democrat attempt to steal the election failed - ebnelson - 2/12/2004 2:07:33 PM
        
        OK you guys. I don't want to hear any more BS about how the hyper-polarization is all the liberals fault. (n/t) - alcaray - 2/12/2004 5:28:46 PM
        
        Agreed. It is only about 80% liberal fault (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/14/2004 11:51:41 AM
        
        You're using Ed as a data point? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/13/2004 8:10:12 PM
        
        All three o yas - alcaray - 2/13/2004 8:12:42 PM
        
        Preventing a theft is not a bad thing - Larry J - 2/11/2004 9:38:55 PM
        
        I was trying to be non-partisan and you had to ruin it. Maybe I'll switch sides... - alcaray - 2/11/2004 11:39:03 PM
        
        re: Maybe I'll switch sides... - Tom Brosz - 2/12/2004 7:30:17 AM
        
        Lack of physical coordination and inability to see well are not always hallmarks of stupidity. - Mary Anne - 2/12/2004 10:46:50 PM
        
        While the fact that the party that wrote the ballot in question hired a telemarketing firm to push the idea that they had voted wrong is evidence of? (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/14/2004 11:49:25 AM
        
        Irrelevant. - Tom Brosz - 2/13/2004 8:09:10 PM
        
        I will look forward to reading the text of your personal interviews with all of the people who had trouble voting in 2000, upon which you base your blanket conclusion of their competence. - Mary Anne - 2/13/2004 8:45:27 PM
        
        "Condition of the machines" - Tom Brosz - 2/13/2004 9:43:14 PM
        
        personal interviews with all of the people who had trouble voting in 2000 - Tom Brosz - 2/13/2004 9:40:37 PM
        
        And computers and screens are always the favorite familiar of the aged! ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 2/12/2004 11:33:50 PM
        
        Funny how the dem story only holds up if one ignores what the dems actually did (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/12/2004 2:09:34 PM

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