A Fair Election
By bobmnu
@bobmnu (8157)
United States
November 12, 2008 1:02am CST
This is from Rush Limbaugh web site. Wouldn't it be nice if every state took the elections this seriously?
"Voter registration ends 25 days before Election Day. You can visit your county election board or mail in the form. Deadline is Friday, October 10th to mail in your vote. An ID was required to vote. When you register to vote in Oklahoma, you'll receive a voter ID card from the election official. You need to bring that card with you, your voter ID card when you go to vote. If you lose or misplace your ID card you get a new one by contacting the county elections official. Cards are not issued during the 24 days before the election. They did have early voting in Oklahoma on the Friday before the election; not 30 days before; not 25 days before. They had early voting on the Friday before, Friday, Saturday, and Monday early voting from eight a.m. to six p.m. Now, it sounds like Oklahoma has elections the way the whole country used to have elections. No early voting, you had to have an ID, no registering and voting on the same day."
In Wisconsin you can register and vote the same day. In Minnesota you only need a person who lives in the same precinct to vouch for you. In the can vising of the ballots in Minnesota they have "discovered" ballots in peoples cars, back rooms and they all are for Frankin. In one county it was reported that the voting machine tally that was sent to the State showed 100 more votes for Frankin than was reported the night before. The date on the machine slip was Nov 2, 2008. In Ohio you could register and vote weeks before the election. There were even reports of 50,000 voters registered in both Ohio and Florida.
If people are to have faith and support for the leaders we need to make sure that the election process is squeaky clean. Such reports weather Republican or Democrat must be check out and the guilty should be punished.
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6 responses
@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
13 Nov 08
I think that this last election was fair. My candidate won, so I have no issues.

@rogue13xmen13 (14402)
• United States
14 Nov 08
Oh yeah, that. Okay, 2000 and 2004 were not fair elections.

@mamaafrica9 (108)
• United States
13 Nov 08
OK The election is over please let it go. He is president fair and square. There were votes not counted 8 years ago and they actually went to court to fight to have them not counted. Then we had to support an un American man who would not allow every vote to be counted and see where he left us. Show support he is the president
@rsa101 (40946)
• Philippines
12 Nov 08
Being an observer and not a citizen of your country, I envy you process in election. You are matured enough and can even become a model in the way you conduct yourselves during election. In my place there is always electoral fraud and violence when election do come in our place. I think when it comes to elections you have already matured already.
@coolseeds (3919)
• United States
12 Nov 08
Believe it or not I didn't show squat to vote. They did not ask for not one form of identification. None. I was appalled. I voted but they should have at least checked to see that I was the person I said I was. LOL I thought about shaving and changing clothes. Then going back and voting for someone's whose name that I saw who was registered and not voting.
The election process is bull. It needs to be the same every where. Not pick and choose.
IF someone doesn't care enough to register before the election then they don't care enough to vote. PERIOD. I registered 3 years ago for this election.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
12 Nov 08
I have always believed that a photo ID and a voter registration card, which was received through the mail at your home address, should be required before you're permitted to vote and have never agreed with same day registration and voting. My county in Florida is small and out town is even smaller. When my husband and I went to our polling place (two blocks away) one of the nice ladies sitting at the table greeted him by name...then asked him for his ID and registration card. They knew who he was...knew who I was, too...but rules are rules...they're in place for a reason and bending them until they're a twisted mess causes more problems than it resolves.
@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
13 Nov 08
We have to show our photo ID (in our case, driver's license) although everyone at the polls knew us. We never have to show our voter registration card, although I had mine. My husband has misplaced his, so he'd have been in trouble. You are right. The rules are in place for a reason and it's terrible that everyone doesn't play by the same rule book!
@Barb42 (4214)
• United States
13 Nov 08
I wish they'd go back to one day for voting, but that will never happen, considering how long we'd have to stand in line. But I do wish they would require ID in every voting area. Everybody knows everybody where we vote, but you don't vote without showing your Driver's license, or another picture ID, and it's written down as they check to see if you are registered. There is no way anyone else could vote there.
I don't think it should be legal to register and vote the same day. I also don't think it should be legal to fill a registration form in any place other than the Court House. That would keep down lots of fraud! It's getting to be where every election is just a joke and so much fraud going on! That's what is happening right now in Minnesota. And I just heard that Obama is sending his team over to Atlanta to try and get that seat as well! Please, let them duke it out themselves and let people vote the one they want in. Please do not try and steal another seat! But, I don't think what I think means a hill of beans to them. There will continue to be fraud whatever election is going on.






