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JABBS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 02:38 PM
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In Sarasota County, Fla., 18,000 Votes Disappear
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State law requires machine recounts when the margin of victory is half a percentage point or less. But will a recount matter?

“If a vote is not recorded electronically inside the machine for whatever reason, there’s no way to go back and recover it,” Rebecca Mercuri, a computer scientist and an expert on voting technology in Hamilton, N.J., who has been critical of electronic voting, told the New York Times. “Chances are that nothing’s going to change, because those votes are gone.”
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Vorta Donating Member (704 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 02:42 PM
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1. How convenient
Isn't it amazing that this malfunction occurs in favor of multilevel marketing scumbag Vern Buchanan (probably spelled wrong but I don't care). There are a lot of scumbags in Sarasota, it's where they go to die from all over the country.
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JABBS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 03:49 PM
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3. it's katherina harris' old district
just to add to the irony. :)
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-10-06 02:45 PM
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2. Republicans know
how much they can re-program and get away with in what particular sections.
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