Thank the Poll Workers 3
There seem to have been relatively few polling problems yesterday, and those that happened were readily explained, despite some dirty tricks which led the Commonwealth of Virginia to call for help from the FBI.
No doubt because Katherine Harris was otherwise occupied.
And, despite the hysteria in certain areas of Left Blogistan, there is no indication of hacked voting machines.
We owe thanks to the poll workers–often poorly or unpaid, many of them volunteers–who pulled this thing off with respect for the procedures of American democracy.
November 8, 2006 at 8:11 pm
And what were they doing in the last two elections?
November 9, 2006 at 1:54 pm
I didn’t have a blog? . . .
The electronic voting machines were new to a great number of states this year. (Delaware has had them for a while–not the laptop type, but the big push-button type.) The Maryland primary was a disaster this spring.
I don’t recall any substantive fusses about 2004 (yeah, some people think Ohio was stolen, but I’m not convinced it was stolen any more than any other time).
The theft of Florida in 2000 did not happen at the polls; it happened in the courts. And, frankly I couldn’t get that much worked up about it.
Gore didn’t even carry his home state, for heaven’s sake. Had he done so, Florida would have been irrelevant. That was a pretty sad commentary on his campaign.
Sure, I think he would have been a better president than Bush. But that’s a pretty low bar to hop.
November 15, 2006 at 7:42 am
I’m glad to see that it went off without a hitch somewhere, because it was a mess here. We still don’t know who the Secretary of State is, or if the state tax will help with preschool costs. This is even after pulling in Denver PD officers to help count. (They had already gone through the CBI background check, so they could be used.) If we had used the ‘purple finger’ voting process, it would have been done faster. Now the Denver mayor is taking apart the election & counting process “to make sure this doesn’t happen again”. This is a week later!