Primary Election Day!
If you live in Virginia, it’s primary election day, remember to go vote!
Results are on the state board of elections website, and will be updated live. I am following very closely to see if we will be hosting a Webb fundraiser or a Miller fundraiser later in the summer.
We just found out that Mr. Webb has a scheduling conflict and we may not be hosting his fundraiser this Sunday after all, more as soon as I know. There are other candidates, you can find out more, on a non-partisan site I have here, or on Politics1.com or the Virginia State Board of Elections website.
I am disgusted that six years into the 21st century, my precinct still has no verified voting system. We still have black box voting machines that are easy to program to skew the election. So much for trust but verify, there will be no verifications here. We must be the most backwards state in the union.
I don’t trust my bank to issue or collect $20 without a receipt and a paper trail, how can our stupid state government assume I trust their system to collect my far-more-valuable vote without a paper trail?
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on June 13th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Call me crazy - but here’s my guess:
402,125 votes for the senate race (a smidge under 9%) 55% for Webb, 41% for Miller
11th CD: Hurst takes 62% of that district’s 52,964 votes.
8th CD: 89,900 votes cast, but split between Democratic Senate Race and Republican Congress Race - most electing to vote in the senate race as Democrats… but Tom O’Donoghue takes a whopping 80% of the remainder.
I just made all that up out of thin air at 6:32pm local time.
on June 15th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Scott, have you been involved with Virginia Verified Voting?
on June 16th, 2006 at 7:03 am
I signed up on the Virginia Verified Voting page (vavv.org), and get regular emails. I have only managed a couple of targeted letters to state Delegates (my own and the Kenneth Alexander, patron of HB 1549, the prior bill requiring paper trails). Sadly I heard back from neither of them, and I later learned that HB 1549 was shelved in favor of HB 1243, which has passed, but will not take effect until after a few more elections get doctored.
Grrrrrrrr!!!