NationStates Jolt Archive


Election 2004 problems

Enodscopia
30-08-2004, 02:40
The number one thing is that we need to BAN all talk of war records and Vietnam and focus on the ISSUES and voting records. Why does it matter what John Kerry did in a war 30 years ago unless it was lying and that should be said out right because its not right to belittle his service to the country to prove that he lied. What do you all think?
Spoffin
30-08-2004, 02:50
The number one thing is that we need to BAN all talk of war records and Vietnam and focus on the ISSUES and voting records. Why does it matter what John Kerry did in a war 30 years ago unless it was lying and that should be said out right because its not right to belittle his service to the country to prove that he lied. What do you all think?
Were you of this same position when Dole was running? Would you have been if it were McCain instead of Bush? I think not.
Superpower07
30-08-2004, 02:53
There's also this Electrionic Voting problem - as far as I'm concerned, ballots are better
Communist Mississippi
30-08-2004, 02:54
The problem is there won't be an election... Bush will find a reason to postpone it... Probably for "security concerns"... Then he will remain president indefinitely, probably until he OD's on cocaine.
Copiosa Scotia
30-08-2004, 02:57
The number one thing is that we need to BAN all talk of war records and Vietnam and focus on the ISSUES and voting records. Why does it matter what John Kerry did in a war 30 years ago unless it was lying and that should be said out right because its not right to belittle his service to the country to prove that he lied. What do you all think?

I'll go one step further. It doesn't matter even if he was lying. He served in Vietnam, who am I to sit here and say that he didn't deserve his medals? Either way, I'm voting on the issues.
Dempublicents
30-08-2004, 03:43
There's also this Electrionic Voting problem - as far as I'm concerned, ballots are better

No, no, electronic voting is better, but only if there is also a paper trail. That way, there's no subjective "hanging chad" B/S or "Is this circle around that name or beside it" or anything like that. You vote and it gets counted by the computer after confirming on the screen. Then, a little printout on a printer that could easily be attached to the voting machines prints out and you can check that against what you just voted. Unfortunately, pretty much every state decided not to have the paper trail - so the election this year is gonna be a circus.