Election Day: Okay, everybody at least ACT surprised

[sigma7]

Tim Daly from Clarendon got a call saying that if he votes Tuesday, he will be arrested. A recording of his voicemail can be found online at: www.webbforsenate.com/media/phone_message.wav

The transcript from his voicemail reads:

"This message is for Timothy Daly. This is the Virginia Elections Commission. We've determined you are registered in New York to vote. Therefore, you will not be allowed to cast your vote on Tuesday. If you do show up, you will be charged criminally."

Daly has been registered to vote in Virginia since 1998, and he has voted for the last several cycles with no problem. He has filed a criminal complaint with the Commonwealth's attorney in Arlington.

It's been two hundred years and change, and I'm still not convinced we have this "democracy" thing down-pat yet.

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Whee.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I love how all the news sources are bending over backwards to say the electronic voting machines are secure because they're not connected to the internet. Yeah, because the problem couldn't possibly be due to malfeasance in the manufacture of the machines, or how easy it would be to jigger the results when the machines are hooked up to be tallied, since there's no independent evidence to counter whatever the poll volunteer reads from the box. Pfeh.