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California’s All-Nighter

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All eyes are on California on this Super Tuesday, but the Golden State might try everyone’s patience with a vote count that could stretch into the morning hours. The state, which is expecting a record turnout, recently switched back to paper ballots—good for its democratic process but bad for its sleepy friends on the East Coast.

CNN:

Compounding California’s vote-counting challenges are millions of absentee ballots and early-voting ballots that have yet to be turned in. Officials said many of those voters are expected to drop the ballots off at their polling places Tuesday.

Because of concerns over reliability, California decertified many of the state’s electronic voting machines. More than a third of the state’s 58 counties will go from directly recorded electronic ballots to paper.

In places such as San Bernardino County, east of Los Angeles, where more than 3,000 voting machines will be sitting in a warehouse, paper ballots are back. Paper ballots will take more time to count, said Kari Verjil, San Bernardino County’s registrar.

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By cyrena, February 6, 2008 at 3:50 pm #

I’m with ya DennisD. I don’t care how long it takes either. And, as a California voter, I’m tickled to no end that we switched back to paper.

But, just to prove your point about the political parasites, (who are still getting paid) I turned on the TV last night just after 9:00Pm. Most polls had only been closed here for 2 hours.

CNN and AP were already ‘calling’ the victories for McCain and CLINTON. I didn’t get it. Then, they eventually admitted, (after ‘calling it’ for Clinton over Obama at least half-dozen times in the course of about 12 minutes), that ONLY 20% OF THE PRECINCTS HAD BEEN COUNTED!! Yep, 20% of the vote counted in a State a big and populace as California, and they were already ‘calling’ and/or projecting the winners.

THIS is why MSM has not only become totally worthless in the past decade, but actually a DANGER to society.

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By DennisD, February 5, 2008 at 10:31 pm #
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I don’t care if it takes a week to count the votes. the result might just be accurate for a change. What’s the rush?

The political news parasites are still getting paid aren’t they?

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