It is an ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT here in AmeriKa!!!
Also see: Stolen Elections (Part 1)
Stolen Elections (Part 2)
"Despite the extra planning, state ballot shortages persist"
How can you be short of ballots?
HOW MANY REGISTERED VOTERS ARE THERE?
Well, then, PRINT THAT MANY!
What is so hard about that?
"by Deborah Hastings, Associated Press | March 31, 2008
NEW YORK - It's a simple question with no simple answer: Why do polling places across America keep running out of ballots when it's no secret that this contentious primary season keeps breaking voter turnout records?
Actually, it's not that hard to figure out if you think about it.
It's called RIGGING ELECTIONS!
For one, even the best-made plans have gone awry; officials in state after state have ordered more ballots, only to see turnouts exceed their most ambitious estimates.
Some states, California, for example, extended registration deadlines, in part to give would-be voters more time to sign up for the first Democratic presidential nomination race between an African-American man and a woman.
But some election officials say those extensions have necessitated a form of fortune telling when it comes to deciding how many ballots to order.
Not helping is the fact that ballot printing is a highly specialized field with a limited number of companies willing to take on the heavily monitored and time-consuming burden of producing and delivering voting cards.
Price per ballot can range from 20 cents to more than $1, depending on complexity. Lead times for printing can range from months to weeks to days, depending on circumstances, including the proximity of Election Day.
You know, with all these FUCKING EXCUSES, why should we believe ANY RESULTS?
Fucking excuses, excuses, excuses!!!!
So with Pennsylvania's April 22 primary looming, and nine other state nominating contests scheduled for May, election activists wonder if even more voters could be subject to huge lines and disenfranchisement caused by an insufficient supply of ballots.
"We're going to keep having this problem," said Doug Lewis, director of the Election Center, which represents voting officials across the country. "Running an election sounds pretty simple until you try to do it. Folks just don't understand how much advance planning goes into setting this up.
Well, if you guys can't do it RIGHT then GET OUT of the WAY and WE WILL!!!!!
"If you run out of ballots, it's because your crystal ball isn't good enough," Lewis said. "Every time you cut the time between the voter registration deadline and the election, you severely impact the voting system."
Sigh! They have MONTHS to do this!
Just MORE EXCUSES for VOTE-RIGGING!
California discovered that on Super Tuesday, Feb. 5, when massive numbers swarmed the polls and record-setting votes were cast by mail. In the Bay Area, ballots ran out. State officials, who had closed registration rolls only two weeks before, were admittedly not prepared for such a surge and were still counting ballots weeks later. California's vote was certified March 15.
I notice they usually run short in poor, minority, Democratic districts (like Cleveland).
Coincidence?
On March 4, precincts in Texas and Ohio ran out of ballots, too. In Cuyahoga County, Barack Obama's campaign obtained a federal court order to keep polling places open an extra 90 minutes because of ballot shortages.
Yeah, that's what I just said!!!!
Virginia's Chesterfield County was the only county in the state to run out of ballots on Feb. 12. Lawrence Haake, the general registrar, has been vilified by critics who say he mismanaged the primary and failed to heed warning signs from other states where polling places were deluged by turnout that reached as high as 80 percent.
More than 38,000 Democratic voters showed up, nearly four times the number that cast ballots in the last presidential primary. Republican turnout was very low in comparison, about 23,000 votes.
Who cares what the party breakdown was?
You know how many voters are registered, and what their affiliations are!
You know what the primary rules are!
Tired of SHIT EXCUSES from a LYING, CORRUPT, ILLEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT!!!
Despite his disbelief, Haake said he did increase his Democratic ballot orders, from 30,000 in January to 42,000 in February after nervously eyeing Super Tuesday contests in 24 states. Virginia is an open primary state, meaning registered Democrats can vote a GOP ballot, and vice versa.
"I had no way of knowing which way they'd vote," Haake said. Haake said he's learned his lesson. For November's general election, he's ordering 110 percent of the voter registration total. "We're going to have enough ballots even if everybody on the rolls shows up," he said.
And SOME EXTRAS on hand so we can RIG SOME ELECTIONS!!!
WTF?
He can't get enough ballots before, and now he is going to make sure he has too many, huh?
I'll bet McCain wins a lot of the extra votes -- and the Democrats get tossed in the trash.
It has happened before!!!
In North Carolina, New Hanover County elections director Bonnie Williams is taking Haake's strategy a step further. She has ordered 100 percent of the voter registration for both Democrats and Republicans, even though her state has closed primaries, meaning voters can't cross party lines."
Pfffffft!
Is that ever setting up a rig job!!!!
It is a CLOSED PRIMARY!!!! That there is a WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY!
So if they aren't fucking up your vote, they are lifting your wallet in the booth!
Pfffffffftttt!
