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nancylebov
predicted: "Unless there's a solid majority in the
polls for one candidate that's reflected in the election
results, half the country is going to think the election was
stolen, except, perhaps, for a few mathematically inclined
folks who think that really close elections are decided by
noise."
[I think she was partly right, but it's fewer
than half. Some people are thinking the election was
stolen; many more are wondering whether it was
stolen. Even so, I'm actually hearing less ranting about
that than I expected, having agreed with nancylebov's
prediction when she made it.]
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I seem to have enough of the geek temperment that I'm aesthetically offended by the lack of a paper trail.
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All I can say is that if I used an ATM and it didn't give me a printed receipt, I'd be checking my account daily AND calling the bank.
When I went in to vote, I looked at the butterfly ballot (it's the only kind I've ever used and I've been voting for 2 decades,) I checked the number on the printed book-ballot to see what numbers were assigned to my choice for president and for senator, I then punched my ballot and pulled the punch card out of the machine to make sure the holes were actually were I wanted them to be.
If someone had told me 10 years ago that I'd be doing that to make sure that my vote *might* count, I'd have thought they were crazy.
I'm relieved to live in a non-swing state.
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I put a longer follow-up elsewhere about various other tracking/activist sites, but I can't put my hands on it right now.
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(But yes, paper _ballots_ and vote counting. Sheesh.)
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I know someone's gonna get on my case for this, but I'm looking at an embarrassing 'nother four years without relief unless both the president and vice- become incapacitated. Which I don't wish on them.
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Did you hear the NPR report from other countries? They asked both ex-pats and natives and the Bush-hatred and total anti-American sentiment out there is a-m-a-z-i-n-g and vast.
If America comes out of 2008 at all resembling a place I want to live and with which the world can reconcile, I'll be shocked.
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