>>>>>Wonder how many other crimes committed surrounding the elections are not politically motivated?
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>>>>>http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=308655
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>>>>The sheriff's department called tire slashings a prank? And saw no significance that they occurred at an Obama rally? Wow.
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>>>Based on interviews with the teen who was found guilty. You think your sense that it had to be politically motivated overrides what the youth stated and the police determined? Interesting.
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>>I didn't say it had to be. It just struck me as sweeping it under the carpet.
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>>Just back from voting, and it went surprisingly quickly. I had planned to wait until next Tuesday but with my training classes starting on Monday I decided to get it out of the way today. Must have hit a real lull because I was the second person in line and was probably not there more than 5 minutes. Just luck, I'm sure. The machine I fed my ballot into had a vote counter on it and mine was the 856th ballot cast. There are four such machines at this polling place. I did not check the counters on the other ones (wish I had) but if they are anywhere near the same that's a lot of votes a week before the election. This polling place can't serve a population greater than 30,000-40,000.
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>Wow, I am in a smaller area and we had more than 10 machines. The machines used during early voting are not the same used on Nov 4th (heard it on the radio today). On election day, paper ballots are used. We were briefed in line and then we had to verify our name and address and sign a form declaring it was correct and then we were briefed on the use of the machine. That was after standing in line for an hour.

Exactly the same here, except the part about one hour. The ballots were ultra low-tech. They give you a black gel-type pen to fill in the ovals by your choices. No chads ;-)