Prometheus 6

I think I'm satisfied.

For now.

That being the case, I believe I want to raise another topic for a minute.

Voting machines.

There's still people who feel voting doesn't change anything. Best line I heard along thos likes was, "If voting could change anything, they wouldn't let you do it." Yet Republicans made vote suppression a central part of their electoral strategy. It turns out, if voting was meaningless that wouldn't try so hard to stop you.

We've seen Republican partisans running the companies that build those things deliver machines that appear to be designed to be hackable. We've seen bizarre explanations for it, like bad interactions with antivirus software.

Diebold changed its name to Sequoia but still ships broken systems after having promised to deliver votes to Bush in 2004.

That's New Mexico that flipped.

And Obama has 174 or 175 electoral votes, depending on who you ask.

NPR just projected Pennsylvania for Obama. And FOX FRACKIN' NEWS projects Libby Dole to lose.

The Senate races are as important as the Presidential one.

I had no idea Kay Hagan sued Sen. Dole over that "Godless Americans" ad.

I'd like to see more of that sort of thing. The only way to stop the ugliness and bad campaigning is to make folks pay the cost for doing so. In fact, I'd like the media to be subject to libel, defamation, etc.

via OurVoteLive.org

Breaking News from FL: Lines at Florida universities up to five hours long
Published by nick on November 4, 2008

Voting lines at University of Central Florida and the University of South Florida reportedly are stretching five and four and a half hours, respectively.

Jon Greenbaum, Director of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, has released the following statement:

They're running a green screen thing they're pretending is a hologram of someone they are interviewing. Gee...

In Indiana, they're saying McCain is ahead with like 9% of precincts reporting. I suspect they're going to drag this thing out, keep the drama going.

Hell with you people, Indiana is just about a wrap at 6:58. Theoretically a Republican state, if it flips for Obama it's off to the races.

I'm also watching South Carolina and Georgia. None of them are reporting yet.