Election confusion
I'm not even upset yet. I think I'm too tired to be. I'm just stunned.
And, like wiliqueen said in partly's journal, the phenomenal turnout of voters--and voters willing to put up with their registrations being questioned, willing to stand in the rain, willing to wait in line till midnight (when there weren't enough ballots in places that had that same problem in 2000 and apparently didn't learn)--the turnout rocks my world.
What doesn't rock my world is the fact that a significant percentage of those apparently aren't worth counting.
What doesn't rock my world is that in EVERY place using Diebold machines (you know, the ones made by the company whose CEO promised to do "whatever it takes" to "deliver" as many votes as possible to Bush) in EVERY place using those machines where the exit polls said it was going for Kerry, the tallied vote went for Bush (and has no paper trail, as is the nature of those machines). In every OTHER exit poll--the ones on different machines where there was a paper trail--the exit polls were accurate to the tallied ballots to within .1 percent.
Exit poll discrepancy is something used to determine election fraud in 3rd world countries. When that fails here, it terrifies me.
And now Kerry has conceded, when provisional ballots and absentee ballots have yet to be counted.
I don't know where I live anymore when every single vote isn't worth counting before a conclusion is reached.
I'm not upset yet because, I think, I'm too perplexed and too convinved that there must be some mistake, because in MY country, every vote counts. In MY country every person's voice must be heard for election results to be final.
I'm having serious cognitive dissonances between that ideal which I conser(ed?) fact and what I'm reading in the news.
And, like wiliqueen said in partly's journal, the phenomenal turnout of voters--and voters willing to put up with their registrations being questioned, willing to stand in the rain, willing to wait in line till midnight (when there weren't enough ballots in places that had that same problem in 2000 and apparently didn't learn)--the turnout rocks my world.
What doesn't rock my world is the fact that a significant percentage of those apparently aren't worth counting.
What doesn't rock my world is that in EVERY place using Diebold machines (you know, the ones made by the company whose CEO promised to do "whatever it takes" to "deliver" as many votes as possible to Bush) in EVERY place using those machines where the exit polls said it was going for Kerry, the tallied vote went for Bush (and has no paper trail, as is the nature of those machines). In every OTHER exit poll--the ones on different machines where there was a paper trail--the exit polls were accurate to the tallied ballots to within .1 percent.
Exit poll discrepancy is something used to determine election fraud in 3rd world countries. When that fails here, it terrifies me.
And now Kerry has conceded, when provisional ballots and absentee ballots have yet to be counted.
I don't know where I live anymore when every single vote isn't worth counting before a conclusion is reached.
I'm not upset yet because, I think, I'm too perplexed and too convinved that there must be some mistake, because in MY country, every vote counts. In MY country every person's voice must be heard for election results to be final.
I'm having serious cognitive dissonances between that ideal which I conser(ed?) fact and what I'm reading in the news.