Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] And so it begins...

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

One thing is becoming abundantly clear. Our current system of voting
is woefully inadequate. There is no way this country should ever
expect to wait a week or more before knowing who the next president is
going to be.

In 2000 this was somewhat acceptable since it was an extreme election.
But this nonsense about Ohio not having results for up to ten days is
absolutely not acceptable.

Whoever gets in office, needs to make voting changes their number one priority.


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:24:56 -0600, Jason McIntosh
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> One problem noticed by the analysts is with Ohio - the numbers there
> they've commented on are actually kinda interesting for this reason:
> Right now, it's mostly the RURAL areas reporting, NOT the urban areas
> which is typically first to report.  This supposedly is due to long
> lines.  Further, with that, the urban areas tend to vote Kerry - so
> it's wayyy too early to say on Ohio.
> 
> Second, on Florida - there's the issue of the 1.6million or so ballots
> (provisional or whatever they're called) - there's some reports that
> they're from heavily democrat areas, but this is another one of those
> its too early to say.
> 
> SO, who knows - I personally hope Kerry wins, but it's so close it's
> hard to say, and the leanings right now seem to be towards Bush.  I'm
> just going to wait a week or so for things to settle out.  Florida as
> always I suspect is going to be a royal mess.
> 
> Jason
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> On Nov 2, 2004, at 10:11 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Jonathan King wrote:
> >
> >> At about 10:01 our time, I expect that they'll instantaneously call
> >> California and Washington for Kerry (for a total of 66 EVs)
> >
> > You got that one right!!
> >
> >
> >> and then Minnesota soon after, to give us a nearly "even" race.
> >
> > Still waiting, but it looks good for Kerry here.
> >
> >
> >> And then they'll mess around for another 20 minutes and call Oregon
> >> and Hawaii for Kerry, giving him a tiny lead in the electoral
> >> college, and then drag out the hard states for the next 5 hours.
> >
> > That might mean that I need to hear the results in the morning.  I'll
> > be up for a while though, maybe until 2:00.
> >
> > Mike
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