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malik flavors Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:15 PM
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Jeffrey Toobin On CNN Thinks There's Funny Buisness Going On In Lake County...
He said polls were only open till 6 in Indiana which is abnormal

The supreme court passed a law in Indiana that forced people to have IDs to vote

And now Lake County is holing the votes, and we don't know what's happening behind the scenes. He thinks they might be figuring out how many votes one candidate needs and screwing with the count.

This does seem a little sketchy...
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:16 PM
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1. I hate when this stuff happens.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:16 PM
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3. lol...
:eyes:
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:18 PM
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5. This stuff always happens.
Its election night in America.
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skooooo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:18 PM
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7. yep..
I've heard stories. They're counting the absentee votes now.
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:16 PM
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2. it's over regardless, even if she wins by 4
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high density Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:17 PM
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4. How do you "screw with the count"
The count is the count. One two three four five six seven...
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hillsidestrangler Donating Member (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:20 PM
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11. The count can be manipulated in any number of ways...
They may not be able to suppress the vote in some regions, but they can fail to report certain precinct total that are not favorable to their candidate and find reasons to disqualify ballots in others. Sad but true...
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:27 PM
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16. Where have you been the last eight years?!
Election fraud is a huge problem.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:31 PM
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19. i shrudder to imagine!
Edited on Tue May-06-08 10:31 PM by orleans
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:33 PM
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21. No, the count is what the machines say it is.
And we've seen how it can be screwed with. Easily.
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2rth2pwr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:18 PM
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6. The Indiana Voter Id law has been in effect since 2005.
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hokies4ever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:25 PM
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15. It was just upheld by the Supreme Court last week
Also, I'm not sure if it's enforcement had been stayed pending the ruling.
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HillYesSheWill Donating Member (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:19 PM
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8. Scare tactics
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mckeown1128 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:19 PM
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9. The clinton supporters are starting to claim/imply fraud...
but... no one seems concerned that Union county(Hillary county)hasn't reported anything yet.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:35 PM
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23. Which is funny because it's Clinton supporters that control
the voting systems in those parts.

Whatever. The votes should be counted, Obama votes AND Clinton votes. If someone screws with the voting, we need to follow up on it, no matter who benefits.
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malik flavors Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:19 PM
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10. Hey, i'm just repeating what was reported fellas. Email all complaints to CNN.com.
Edited on Tue May-06-08 10:19 PM by malik flavors
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:20 PM
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12. Dan Burton on nbc Indy said he was weakened by crossover reps to vote dem
Of course, we cannot now how many of those cross overs were chaos and how many were libertarians/republicans sick of Bush. some of both, no doubt.

why can't Limbaugh be charged with vote tampering if one of his listeners would admit they crossed over b/c of Limbaugh's scheme?

If Clinton's speech is any indication of what is going on.... let's just say that Evan Bayh is a bigger scumbag than I ever knew.
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TragedyandHope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:20 PM
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13. Russert said one of their projections had this race coming down to 1800 votes
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stranger81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:24 PM
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14. Interesting . . . . Jim Loewen identifies much of Lake County as sundown
or formerly sundown (meaning no blacks allowed after dark), with the exception of Gary, of course. That includes towns like Cedar Lake, Crown Point, Hobart, Merrillville, and Whiting.

http://www.uvm.edu/~jloewen/sundowntownsshow.php?state=IN
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beachmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:27 PM
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17. I thought they were central time, and therefore were open 1 hour later. nt
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Guaranteed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:27 PM
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18. He might be right, but it doesn't matter.
They shouldn't have done that.
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TexasObserver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:33 PM
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20. a court held a number of polling places open past 6 PM central time
because of problems

We are only three hours and change past the time when the last voting ended.
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:45 PM
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25. What kind of problems were reported?
Was that announced on cable news? I don't have cable, so I can't following these stories on teevee
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:34 PM
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22. did Toobin ever report on the machines in PA that weren't working in black districts?
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Tatiana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-06-08 10:35 PM
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24. I think they are tabulating to report all the votes at once. n/t
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