Early Voting for President Begins with 'Hiccups'

[MGKrebs]

And now, the rest of the story...

"It's a hiccup, it's a bit more than a hiccup," Snipes told the Sun-Sentinel newspaper."

"I don't want the same like the last election," echoed Haitian American Jean-Jacques Ardoun as he waited in a line of several hundred that snaked from inside the Miami-Dade government center outside. "Last time they took the votes and threw them in the garbage."

"In Broward County, north of Miami, supervisor of elections Brenda Snipes said a computer connection went down, preventing nine ballot stations from accessing a database to find out which one of the county's 152 different ballot styles each voter should have." (WTF???)

"In Orlando, home to the Disney World theme parks, people were kept waiting for more than two hours by a combination of long lines and computer malfunctions that prevented poll workers from verifying the names and addresses of voters"

This is early voting!

In Miami-Dade, poll workers appeared overwhelmed by the hundreds brought to the government center by a rally of trade unions, voter activists and Democrats, and the line to cast an early ballot moved achingly slowly.

edit: Oops. Here's the link.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20041018/pl_nm/campaign_voting_dc

[Jacobin]

1. Sounds more like the beginnings of a grand mal seizure to me

[Laelth]

2. Spread this message far and wide ...

Latest rumor I've heard is that Karl Rove plans to contest every single state that's close in the 2004 election (and there could be upwards of 15 of them). If he can keep these election challenges in the courts until Jan. 20, the House of Representatives gets to choose an "intirim President." No law prevents the Republican-controlled congress from choosing George W. Bush. Thus, with Bush established as the intirim President, in order to insure stability and to protect the Constitution, it's likely that the courts will rule for Bush and that he will be safely re-selected as President.

Rove needs to be able to argue that the process was screwed up. So, (evidence suggests--look at Florida) he's screwing up the process.

Please, folks, distribute this theory far and wide. When the Republicans argue, with utter indignation on Nov. 3, that the election has been stolen, we need the American people to be aware that this was all part of the Rove plan. Spread the word ...

I certainly hope I'm wrong about this. But if I'm not, the American expiriment in democracy is in jeopardy.

[Amich]

4. okay I'm getting a little discouraged. They work on getting

"voting rights" to other countries, but they won't allow us to vote. or have our vote count. I did drop my ballot off today though in Oregon

[RevCheesehead]

6. Sounds like a good role for Howard Dean!

[UCLA Dem]

3. thats a euphemism if I've even hear one.

[MGKrebs]

5. If any of you are activists out there...

go to the planning meetings this week! Florida is again showing us how NOT to do it.

Everybody is so anxious to vote that they are showing up on the first day of early voting? That has GOT to be good news for us. But we have to try to get some people in the rest of the states to be a little bit patient and wait until the SECOND day.

We can do it!

Don't let THIS happen: