Friday, December 28, 2007

Voting Fraud, Get your Absentee Ballots Now

Hello Everyone,

I have bad news for those in Florida and possibly anyone else in this current condition. I had changed my registration to Republican in order to vote for Ron Paul in the Florida Primaries, mainly because we're awesome and have closed primaries :( I did this change back in October and have not received my registration yet. Being a concerned voter, I went down to the registration office in St. Petersburg to verify I had been changed to Republican, since Florida registration closes at the end of the December. They had changed me to Republican, however managed to spell my name wrong, that is now corrected. I was under the impression, through inquiry, that we would be using some form of scanned voting where a paper trail is created. I asked, just out of curiosity, about how we would be voting. Much to my dismay, I was told that we are using the electronic voting machines, the same ones used at the Saint Petersburg Straw Poll at the Saint Petersburg Debate. You know, the same ones that had all the problems, voting fraud and incorrectly told you who you voted for. These are the rebranded Diebold machines that are under much controversy in their accuracy. They could not tell me why they are using them and so I asked what my options were. They told me, if I wanted a paper vote I would have to do an Absentee Ballot, which has to counted by hand. I want to urge everyone, who cares about their vote to do the same, regardless of voting type that happens to be electronic. Please get this message out and help us, regardless of your choice in candidate, and make your vote count for something and not be subject to error or problems with the machines.

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