Voting Obama? Live in CO or OH?

[Magus]

So it really is the right time to rage against the machine?

...I'll show myself out.

[Sky Warrior Bob]

Some good news, the voting machine thing might not be nearly as bad. As there are apparently few machines in Ohio, restricted to two counties.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/20...nes/?mobile=nc

This rigged machine theory is based on actual reporting on Tagg Romney’s Solamere and its cozy relationships with many businesses interested in lobbying the government. However, there is absolutely no evidence that this crony capitalist network extends to interference with voting machines. Furthermore, Hart Intercivic machines are only being used in two counties in Ohio. Though it is not implausible that the election could come down to two Ohio counties, it seems like quite a gamble to plant these supposedly rigged machines so sparsely.

The rigged machines myth is not only distracting, but harms the effort to get out the vote. Conservative groups have been promoting vote suppression tactics for a reason: votes count. In Ohio, for instance, despite the Republican Party’s best efforts to restrict early voting hours, voter turnout is on pace to surpass 2008, with Obama leading among people who have already voted. Spreading the myth that the system is so corrupt that these votes don’t matter tells voters they may as well sit out the election.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Sky Warrior Bob

Some good news, the voting machine thing might not be nearly as bad. As there are apparently few machines in Ohio, restricted to two counties.

Still more than enough to potentially skew the results in what might be an extremely narrow race decided by a thousand votes or less in that state.

[Magus]

I don't think Ohio will be too close--too many jobs in the auto, solar panel, and windmill industry.

[shiney]

I guess early voting (which coincidentally doesn't use these machines) has broken very favorably for Obama.

[Hatake Kakashi]

Oh, what a surprise.

[Magus]

He shoulda tried voting for Jill Stein. I heard that makes the machine vote for FDR's Ghost.

Also the only thing Fox News will run about this was how the guy committed a crime since you're not allowed to have cellphone/video cameras/recording devices filming in a polling place.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

So far over here in NJ Romney has the lead... For now anyway.

[Magus]

I could have told you before he was going to win New Jersey but now it's two hours later and he won it handily.

Still doesn't explain why they all voted for Chris Christie but I can't understand why we all voted for Corbett here, either (the answer of course is that there wasn't as much voter turnout in 2010 because people are dumb and don't realize that the lower down the totem pole the guy is the more effect it has on your daily life--Corbett has caused a metric ton of problems for me and many others with his draconian, across-the-board education cuts).

I wish people voted in off-year elections. But I guess that would just be greasing the wheels of the broken system that can never be fixed or whatever. For we are all important cogs in the machine! Except that our votes don't matter and thus we are not important cogs. Except we are? I dunno. Better just sit back and let someone else drive this machine off a cliff so we can establish our utopia.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Magus

For we are all important cogs in the machine! Except that our votes don't matter and thus we are not important cogs. Except we are? I dunno. Better just sit back and let someone else drive this machine off a cliff so we can establish our utopia.

Your problem is that you're misspelling impotent.