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#1 Nov 02 2006 at 9:02 AM Rating: Good

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This picture is not reassuring.

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He had heard the horror stories about the voter check-in machines crashing during Maryland's September primary. And he knew about the doomsday fears of hackers hijacking an election.

But Samuel Goodman's main concern during a training session last week for prospective election judges in Montgomery County was something far more simple: how to turn on the machines.

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#2 Nov 02 2006 at 9:13 AM Rating: Excellent

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In retrospect, I should have looked into being a poll worker this election. It's not as if I couldn't have gotten the day off work. And I'd feel better with me there than some senior citizen who, by their own admission, doesn't know an ethernet router from a crock-pot.

2008 election, I suppose.

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#3 Nov 02 2006 at 9:18 AM Rating: Good

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I thought the same thing. I always check the box that says I'm interested, but no one ever seems to follow up on that.

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#4 Nov 02 2006 at 9:19 AM Rating: Good

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I went to Golden Corral for dinner last night, which, in case you didn't know, is an all-you-can-eat buffet filled with equal parts obese white trash and elderly folks that make Michael J Fox look like a reasonable choice for a brain surgeon. I had a hard time trusting these relics with scooping their own mashed potatoes and bread dressing, let alone over-seeing a modernized voting process. I say we grind them up and use them as bath salts.

Edited, Nov 2nd 2006 at 9:24am PST by Barkingturtle

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#5 Nov 02 2006 at 9:20 AM Rating: Good

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This is retarded. Gambling with one of our countries most sacred institutions. The pictures on that page say it all. A bunch of 60+ year old men trying to figure out how to use the "infarnal machine".

It reminds me of the time I got my mother to TRY to play Super Mario Brothers..

Good job Good job

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#6 Nov 02 2006 at 9:21 AM Rating: Decent

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The news last night reported on some voting machines, sold to counties in the SF bay area, that could potentially allow someone to vote twice if the pushed the yellow reset button on the back of the machine after voting the first time. The manufacturers should have used a key instead of just a button or even require a code to be entered to complete the reset, but I guess that would have taken too much effort.

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#7 Nov 02 2006 at 9:27 AM Rating: Good

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I'm trying to think of a good analogy here..

Something like buying a new game, and NOT having a clue how to play it, but you're so exited about it you install it and start playing it anyway, even though you have not a clue waht you are doing.

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#8 Nov 02 2006 at 9:34 AM Rating: Excellent

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Kelvyquayo the Irrelevant wrote:

I'm trying to think of a good analogy here..

Something like buying a new game, and NOT having a clue how to play it, but you're so exited about it you install it and start playing it anyway, even though you have not a clue waht you are doing.

Keep trying.

This kind of news makes me wonder why politicians are so concerned with the blue-hairs. It's not like they could figure out how to turn on the TV, much less work the voting machines!

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#9 Nov 02 2006 at 1:16 PM Rating: Decent

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This is retarded. Gambling with one of our countries most sacred institutions

Haha Sacred.

I think it's a fairly safe bet that there hasn't ever been an election in the US without widespread fraud.

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#10 Nov 02 2006 at 1:19 PM Rating: Good

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Smasharoo wrote:

This is retarded. Gambling with one of our countries most sacred institutions

Haha Sacred.

I think it's a fairly safe bet that there hasn't ever been an election in the US without widespread fraud.

Blasphemous commie!

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#11 Nov 02 2006 at 1:46 PM Rating: Good

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Blasphemous commie!

What do you expect? He's from Boston!!!!

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