Howard-Empowered People Comments
I agree with Charlie Grapski that the founders of this country intended there to be more than a few candidates running for office.
Wouldn't be a problem if we all adopted Instant Runoff Voting.
(Well, and if the election results weren't tampered with.)
And, as always, Howard Dean is FIRST!
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Reposting from end of last thread:
"whenever there is some *big* game that everyone on *all* the blogs is talking about, I'm the one who doesn't even know what kind of ball is involved in that game, much less which teams are playing."
Renee! I'm the other one!!
Jon did a good job with the Oscars tonight.
It even ended on time.
I was hoping for a Moment of Zen, though.
I thought Philip Hoffman and Reese Witherspoon gave wonderful acceptance speeches from the heart. Just lovely. Made me glad I'd watched.
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Quick post before bed. Edwin made it out of the hospital in the nick of time, and did do the last show. AND was wonderful!
He got a new roommate last night, a really nice guy from Kentucky who's tangled with some asbestos. He's lost one lung and his heart sack has been replaced with a cow's. He's in a good bit of trouble, and a goodly amount of pain. Edwin has asked me to ask Renee to put him on the prayer page.
His name is Dave, and in Louisville, his spring flowers are just coming up.
Happy Monday. OK, here's what happened last night. Bill and I went to the animal shelter volunteer dinner, and we agreed to foster a tiny chihuahua puppy with the possibility of rent to own. She's 12 weeks old and very cute, white with a black 'mask' and black heifer markings. Smart as a whip too.
Our aussie Sydney seems to be fine with it. Our 17 year old cat, not so much.
We're calling the puppy Punky. She and Sydney slept through the night but the cat didn't. So neither did I.
Voting machine support costly
Elections boards and counties stunned by expense; state aid for training ends after primary
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Mary Beth Lane
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The cost of service contracts for new touchscreen voting machines has left county elections officials across Ohio in sticker shock.
Many say they need the extra — and expensive — technical support to program and run the machines properly and ensure the integrity of elections.
But a spokesman said Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell thinks counties can run the systems themselves after the May 2 primary election, when state-paid training and technical support ends.
Counties are not required to have extra technical support after that. It’s their choice.
The full coverage plan offered by Diebold Election Systems to service its touch-screen voting machines in Fairfield County, for example, would cost $90,000 a year. Partial-coverage options are available at $60,000 and $21,000 a year.
"It just about blew our minds away," said Alice Nicolia, director of the county Board of Elections.
In poorer Perry County, a Diebold service contract is out of the question.
"We just do not have the money," said Janie DePinto, elections board director. Her board is considering hiring a cheaper consultant to provide technical support at election times.
DePinto plans to ask county commissioners for more money.
http://www.dispatch.com/election...0305-C1-
00.html
Sure Blackwell thinks the counties "can run the systems themselves". Gives him perfect cover to do what they did in '04. Mess with the votes. Blackwell is in a sweet spot. He has the power to annoint himself Governor, and God help us if he does. He is truly the vortex of evil.
Slow start for me this morning. I had 2 or 3 nights in a row where I couldn't sleep because I was stuffed up. So apparently I made up for it this morning. Still waking up.
Anyway, puddle, I will be sure to add Edwin's hospital roommate to the page with our intentions.
And, Donna, bummer about the sleep deprivation. Hope the cat and the chihuahua are able to work things out amicably.
Also, puddle, if you're around, and in case jc or Karen hasn't pointed this out to you yet, removing the Impeach Bush ribbon code from your blog will fix the formatting issues.
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