Voting concerns for the upcoming election
- Primula Baggins
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I'm waiting to see the final count with absentees before I call shenanigans. But Alaska is the one state where (if the current counts hold) the polling was spectacularly off.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
- sauronsfinger
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Well then lets see and count those absentee ballots. For the life of me I cannot understand why some communities - like the one I live in - can count the absentee ballots the same hour they count everything else and have 100% of the vote totals on Tuesday night... while others take days, weeks or even more than a month. That just screams that something is not right.
Maybe the Alaskan Governor should take some of those billions in oil money she taxes each year and hire a few more people to count those votes next time in a more timely manner. Of course, redistribution of wealth from the haves to the have nots is the Alaskan philosophy.
Maybe the Alaskan Governor should take some of those billions in oil money she taxes each year and hire a few more people to count those votes next time in a more timely manner. Of course, redistribution of wealth from the haves to the have nots is the Alaskan philosophy.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.... John Rogers
- sauronsfinger
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In Michigan they are counted. In my local community, they are counted the same evening that they get the totals from the voting machines. The clerk can even break it down for you in terms of what votes came from what sources.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.... John Rogers
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The Anchorage Daily News also thinks something smells fishy about the Alaskan vote returns.
http://www.adn.com/politics/story/582698.html
You would think they are in a position to know.
http://www.adn.com/politics/story/582698.html
You would think they are in a position to know.
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.... John Rogers