FYI CA Voter problems email

[Noordam]

I just received from one of my Florida friends...

Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:59 PM
Subject: Hot election gossip from the Golden State. Maybe.


I have hot election gossip (maybe) from the Golden State, you guys. CLG News < http://www.legitgov.org/index.html > sez that Chris Matthews has declared The Groper as winner. However... Our bookkeeper went to her polling place at 7 am this morning and it wasn't even open. AND when it did open, the Alameda County Diebold machines didn't even work. 12 people's votes were apparently not counted in the time that she was there.

But wait! It gets juicier!

I got one of those taped calls from the Firefighters' union saying that if I had encountered voting descrepancies, I was to call 877-0321-VOTE. Well. Patriot that I am, I called them to report our bookkeeper's sad tale. And the person who answered the phone told me this: "We've been getting calls all night from everywher in the state from people who said that their machines didn't work. IN ADDITION, people have been complaining that even though they had gotten in line long before the polls closed, they had been turned away at 8 pm." Shades of Florida!

"Where are you located," I asked the person on the other end. "We have a big call-central in Los Angeles." Los Angeles? Sounds more like Miami to me! This election could well be null and void.

At least until the media starts to do its little spin. Then we get stuck with Arnold. Sigh. But there is still the 2.5 million absentee ballots left to count. That could take weeks.