Does early voting concern you?

[in_cog_ni_to]

It does me. They have 15 days to change the votes, instead of hours on election day. This is like a practice run for Nov. 2. I don't feel good about it, but I don't feel good about Nov. 2 either. They no doubt are going to do whatever it takes to get that bastard back in the WH. :scared:

[Not Me]

1. Assuming they don't change the votes,

I still wonder about the information (day-to-day tallies) that's available to insiders...like Jeb-- and what they do with that information.

[Walt Starr]

2. As I understand it, the ballots must remain sealed until after the polls

close on November 2nd.

Anybody touches those ballots prior to election day and it's a MAJOR felony.

[gatorboy]

5. I don't see that stopping them.

Bush can invade friggin countries and get away with it.

If you question Georgie then you're working with the terra'ists!

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Since when do the repukes worry about

committing a felony? Would Jeb care if some election official peeked? I doubt it. Nothing would happen to them if they did open them and they know it. :(

[xray s]

7. how do you seal e-votes?

I understand the voters in FL can cast an early vote by paper ballot OR vote electronically. So how do you seal those electronic vote totals?

I agree with in-cog-ni-to...I sense a lot of opportunities for mischief.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. I don't think sealing e-votes is possible.

Anyone can access those totals at any time. Plus, anyone with a laptop can work their magic at any time too. :(

I think this is why the chimp's campaign was encouraging early voting. They'll have a better idea of what kind of fix they need to initiate. Dump absentee ballots? Change the evote totals? Disenfranchise more people? Send out bogus flyers with the wrong voting date? Change the voter's voting places? There's so many things they can and will do.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. That too.

There's so much to be concerned about, it makes my head spin.

[Misunderestimator]

4. I believe they are encouraging early voting so that they can expose

problems before the general election... that's why I'm going... other than so I will be free to volunteer on Nov 2.

[0rganism]

9. I'm glad these e-voting machines are getting an early workout

Their incredible technical failure rate would spell DISASTER on election day, even *assuming* they were programmed on the up-and-up. If word gets out, maybe more people will demand provisional paper ballots instead of trusting what a republican-programmed database stores on a memory card.