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November 02, 2004
Girding the loins
California polls officially open in 30 minutes. Many of my friends, including my husband, have already voted via absentee ballot or early voting.
My polling place is across the street from my daughter's high school, so I'll be there by 7:30 am. I'm looking forward to reporting how many people are there and then I'll start my day of traveling and reporting for Command Post.
In the meantime, here are some interesting reads:
Powerline discusses the strange case of Tom Daschle who just doesn't want a vote of the people, but an old buddy judge to help him win.
Digger's realm has a nice roundup and recommendations on some of California's sixteen ballot propositions. I know, it sure looks like insanity on California's part, but hey, would you expect any different from the left coast?
Jim Geraghty's blog entries are a must read. He's receiving reports of heavy turnout and (shock!) Democrat cheating in New Jersey. I also found it interesting that poll workers are wearing Kerry buttons while Daschle was claiming that "rolled eyes" constituted "voter intimidation."
Drudge is reporting on possible cheating in PA, where:
Before voting even began in Philladelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout downtown... One incident occurred at the SALVATION ARMY, 2601 N. 11th St., Philadelphia, Pa: Ward 37, division 8... pollwatchers uncovered 4 machines with planted votes; one with over 200 and one with nearly 500... A second location, 1901 W. Girard Ave., Berean Institute, Philadelphia, Pa, had 300+ votes already on 2 machines at start of day... INCIDENT: 292 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 7/7: ADDRESS: 122 W. Erie Ave., Roberto Clemente School, Philadelphia, Pa.; INCIDENT: 456 votes on machine at start of day; WARD/DIVISION: 12/3; ADDRESS: 5657 Chew Ave., storefront, Philadelphia, Pa... Developing...
Color me shocked, again, considering PA's Governor Rendell is so hostile to Bush voters he had to be armwrestled into extending the deadline for receipt of military absentee ballots even though the delay in the military getting the ballots in the first place were solely PA's.
Between ACORN's fraud*, NAACP's trading crack for registrations and ALF-CIO's physical assaults of Republican HQ's, the Daschle-style of contempt for voters is widespread throughout the Democratic Party.
As I just heard Peggy Noonan just say on Laura Ingraham's show, "The Democratic party has turned into 10,000 Mayor Daleys."
*Yes, I'm well aware of the one Republican hired voter registration group, Sproul, engaging in registration shennigans. I think it just goes to show that we need to stop all "independent" registration.
UPDATE It is being reported that Philly city officials are stating that the count observers saw on the voting machines at the start of voting is a cumulative total of use between servicing, not the count of votes that will be cast today. Ben below pointed first to this story.
Posted by Darleen at November 2, 2004 06:25 AM
Comments
Here is an article at ABC about the voting machines. Things are not what they seem at first glance.
Posted by: ben at November 2, 2004 02:11 PM