Been to Chicago ?? Ever gone up against the Dem

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Been to Chicago ??
Ever gone up against the Democratic Machine ??

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I LIVE in Chicago. The mayor is in trouble and the 'machine' is not what it used to be. And no, I haven't been trampled by nursing home inhabitants bent on voter fraud.

I go to the polls and my name is on the registration list. I produce my DL. Address info matches, I vote.

City provides non-driver ID's for $10. Hard to get around those requirements, so now we're down to voting machine reliability.

Technology is' equal opportunity' when it comes to failure or manipulation

Remember when the Diebold company was involved in voting machine 'controversies'?

http://columbusfreepress.com/article/diebold-...-elections

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Diebold computer goblin causes the 2000 election to be called for Bush

The rush to embrace computerized voting, of course, began with Florida’s 2000 presidential election. But, in fact, one of the Sunshine State's election-day disasters was the direct result of a malfunctioning computerized voting system; a system built by Diebold.

The massive screw-up in Volusia County was all but lost in the furor over hanging chads and butterfly ballots in South Florida. In part that is because county election officials avoided a total disaster by quickly conducting a hand recount of the more than 184,000 paper ballots used to feed the computerized system. But the huge computer miscount led several networks to incorrectly call the race for Bush. The first to call it was Fox News where Bush’s first cousin, John Ellis, was in charge of election night coverage.

The first signs that the Diebold-made system in Volusia County was malfunctioning came early on election night, when the central ballot-counting computer showed a Socialist Party candidate receiving more than 9,000 votes and Vice President Al Gore getting minus 19,000.

Another 4,000 votes poured into the plus column for Bush that didn't belong there. Taken together, the massive swing seemed to indicate that Bush, not Gore, had won Florida and thus the White House. Election officials restarted the machine, and expressed confidence in the eventual results, which showed Gore beating Bush by 97,063 votes to 82,214.

After the recount, Gore picked up 250 votes, while Bush picked up 154. But the erroneous numbers had already been sent to the media.

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