ELECTION RESULTS CAUSED BY ARROGANCE !!!!!!
First, I must admit that I was wrong in my 121st state rep prediction. Eddie Day won BIG!
I watched election coverage all Tuesday night and into Wednesday. I have watched and listened to pundit after pundit analyze and over analyze the results. I heard all the exit polls indicate why the republicans lost their elections.
My personal belief is that one thing and one thing only lost the Rs the House and Senate and that is ARROGANCE. President Bush and all his R followers believed that they were right and that nothing anyone could say would change there minds. It took a thumping by the Ds to push Bush into firing Rummy.
I was thrilled and scared at the same time by the results. I was thrilled that America spoke up and told Bush and his Rs that we don't believe them anymore. I was scared and still am that the Ds don't do the same thing and screw up the chance for a D president in 2008.
Disagreement, debate and compromise are what the Framers intended. The history of the Framers and most of the leaders of our country disagreed, debated and compromised and came up with our "CONSTITUTION". Winston Churchill once said that "democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried."
Government works best when all work together towards a common goal. We don't all have to agree on how to get there, but if we work together we can more efficiently get to where we want to go.
So, to all new and old elected officials, the people have spoken. Let's all work together and more forward together.
posted by Calvin @ 3:54 PM
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Concerns over Election Day results
Resident worried about glitches in voting machines; there’s no problem, says county election chief.
By KRIS WERNOWSKY kwernowsky@leader.net
WILKES-BARRE – Walter Griffith said he plans to make a formal complaint with the county’s election board and the state over seals missing from the electronic voting machines used in Tuesday’s election.
At issue are red seals used to secure the new machines after the polls closed that were missing from election packages received by the judges of elections in Luzerne County’s 219 precincts. Griffith said he warned county election chief Leonard Piazza at 1 p.m. on Election Day that the seals were missing, but was told that it wasn’t a matter of concern.
Piazza said the seals aren’t necessary because the data cards that hold the election information, including votes, are taken into county custody separate from the machines, making it impossible to manipulate the votes.
“With Walter, one day you’re doing a great job, and the next day you’re not,” Piazza said. “When he doesn’t get an answer he wants to hear, he calls the newspaper and complains. If someone were to open up a voting machine illegally, it would appear in the audit trail.”
Another concern raised by Griffith was a programming hiccup that showed the machines were running an hour ahead of schedule. A message prompt that appeared on machines at 7 p.m. told voters that the polls were closed. This forced election judges to manually override the machine to allow voting to continue.
Piazza said the machines were programmed improperly using Central Standard Time, and that most election judges were told to simply override the machines and continue allowing people to continue voting.
Griffith said he’s concerned that votes cast after 7 p.m., an hour before polls in Pennsylvania are required to close, weren’t counted in the final tallies. Without substantial proof, Griffith believes there to be some form of foul play, either with the Bureau of Elections or the voting machine distributor Election Systems & Software Inc.
“Somebody needs to be held accountable for breaking the law,” Griffith said. “Somebody screwed up the program to say close the clocks at 7 o’clock. Was that a program problem with ESS or were they told to close the polls at 7 o’clock?”
Piazza said that all of the votes from the moment the polls opened until the official closing time of 8 p.m. were counted and confirmed again during Friday’s official count.
Griffith expects to address the county Bureau of Elections at the Nov. 27 meeting and said he plans to request a formal investigation from the Pennsylvania Department of State and the Luzerne County District Attorney’s Office.
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