thunder wrote:
I hate to say it, but the quality of our
leadership has gone down since then, on both sides.


agreed!

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:51:42 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:39:39 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:37:39 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Palm Beach County could not understand a simple butterfly punch ballot. So
we spend $4 billion to go electronic and they now want paper ballots.

Is that the election that Bush won because Dems were voting for Pat
Buchanan?

That is somewhat misrepresented.
Buchanan got over 30,000 votes in the primary and only 3700 or so in
the general. It is clear he had a lot of support in Palm Beach County.
Most people think of "Palm Beach" (Ted Kennedy, beautiful people and
rich Jews) when they think of that county. The western part is
agricultural and a lot of those farmers were ****ed about plowing
their tomato crop under because Mexican tomatoes priced them out of
the market. Buchanan was the only anti-NAFTA candidate in that race.
There are also a lot of rednecks in West Palm Beach who liked his kick
ass attitude..

I would vote for Buchanan over Gore or Bush any day.
But I ain't a redneck. Wait. uh oh. Maybe I am.
BTW, just today I was talking to my dad in Punta Gorda and he was
bitching about how he paid $1.20 for a medium tomato, while he can
get a bushel of them for $10 in Stuart. He's a lifelong fisherman, so
he exaggerates some. But I believe him anyway.

--Vic

He probably bought it at Safeways. At $3.00 a pound, a small tomato could
cost $1.20.

Dave Hall wrote:

I have never in my life, no matter what voting method was being used,
been provided a written copy of my ballot. I suspect that such would
be quite handy when I wanted to get my $10 for voting "correctly"....

Dave Hall

Hey! where do I collect that $10.00!
My written copy is the completed ballot I take to the booth to use as a
guide. I did read the paper going through the machine, to see if it did
what I wanted it to. Daffy is a shoe-in!
Den

The system has to be changed.........and done so on a bipartisan basis. If
not the US election process will continue to be nothing more than a joke.
turn off voters and remain a bottomless money pocket for lawyers.

The joke is on people with this attitude. People that want to stay in power
often depend on low turn out. What better way to have their faithful
followers stuff the ballot, legally! And they're laughing all the way to
their Gov't offices, voted in not by quantity of votes, but by the lack
thereof.

Enough with the bull**** about it "not being worth it".