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Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 03:52 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This thread is to celebrate the process and allow political enthusiasts a place to express their joy, concerns, dismay, or indifference to tonight's election returns - and report their local information. Personally, I love the fact of our elections as they exist more than I anticipate the returns that I would like to see. I hope that most of you do, too, although of course there will be cursing of the fates on both sides (I'm sure). Feel free to post your election news and thoughts in here, and I'll do my best to keep the tone upbeat and civil to all views. Hopefully, we can give our Canadian friends a little bit of insight into how we make this work - we don't necessarily agree, but respect others' right to disagree. Deal? PPPPAAARRRTTYYYYY!!

Dra, could you roll that wetbar in here, please?

Twiggyish

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm always up for a party =)

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 03:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Miss Twiggy, will you kindly be in charge of the cheese sticks?

Hillbilly

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 03:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
And what a great process it is. Now, if I could just get away from these pesky users who keep calling with problems....maybe I could head fer home.

Draheid

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
As you wish:

Now Open

bar

Enjoy responsibly!

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Dra - I'll have some Frangelica. My most hated politician just pulled even. I'm gonna need a few cocktails.

Draheid

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:21 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah, yes, I almost forgot your private stock! frangelica

Karuuna

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think I better wait on the bar, unless you have a nice expresso. I'm tired and it's gonna be a long night.

Thanks for the invite Goddess, you are a sweetheart. :)

Yuhuru

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ooohhhh if I weren't 7 months pregnant, i'd dig in. BUT if I wake up with a certain person as my governor, i just might anyway

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Miss Yuhuru - what's going on in Georgia? I heard there were some problems with the machines, but haven't heard anything on the Georgia gubernatorial.

Twiggyish

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Yuhuru!!

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm still waiting for that jug Hillbilly promised for a vote for him.......I told him I used him as a write-in....( I hope he wants to move here to be our Constable!!!)LOL!! Hi, Goddess. Thanks for the invitation to your party!

Yuhuru

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh no, don't say that!!!! I don't know a thing. I'm watching Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius with my three year old, but he's just announced that I'm the black Power Ranger so now I must go fight (or at least pretend to I can't move too fast these days)

Hillbilly

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Suits....yu's got to stay sober and help me post the Arkansas election results!

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Not my party - OUR PARTY!!! I'm hoping we don't give the Moderators strokes tonight, so doing my best to keep the partisan political anger out of this thread. Just having a great time celebrating our luck in being Americans. What would you like to drink?

Ps according to HB, no cocktails for you. You'll have to wait until the votes are counted (ya perv!).

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow, Twig - I'd heard that Jeb had pulled ahead in the past couple of days, but I hadn't expected those numbers.

Yuhuru

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
From NBC affiliate 11 Alive in Atlanta:

<Six machines in a DeKalb County precinct were down, and nearly 100 people were forced to stand in line.


There were no voter access cards at a precinct in Union City. The cards allow voters to access the ballot. Cards were rushed to the precinct.


Several precincts in Savannah reported that voters put their voting card in the wrong slot in the voting machines.


While Republican gubernatorial candidate Sonny Perdue's wife, Mary, was voting, a machine locked up and crashed. Officials rebooted the computer, and she finished voting without any further problems.

Despite these problems, officials from the secretary of state's office said most glitches did not affect vote counts.

"We think things, in the main, are going extremely well," said spokesman Chris Riggall. "The reality is, with every election you hold with a new (voting) platform, it will go more and more smoothly."
Out-of-order machines meant slightly longer delays for voters who braved Tuesday's brisk rain. Technicians worked to replace dud machines with backups, Riggall said, adding that a staff of more than 100 state employees and 500 technicians were deployed around the state to fix machine mishaps.

But Tuesday's problems are a sharp contrast to the 2000 election, when officials estimated the ballots of 95,000 Georgia voters did not contain a choice for president.>

Hillbilly

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<hillbilly makes a mad dash for the car before his phone can ring again!!>>

Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, it sounds like things were not so bad as they reported earlier in the day, Yuhuru. Good deal. Thanks for the info. Virgin margarita?

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
OH, Hillbilly!!!! Don't be a party pooper....I promise I'll stay sober, I just want a swig...you know just enough to curl my toenails!!LOL Goddess, I promise to be good....I am like your good old Dad I too split it....I do not vote party, I just vote for the one I believe to be the better candidate!

Chiparock

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'll stick with the official drink of BB3 ==> Citrona

Suitsmefine

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I mean we are voting for human beings, We could find something wrong with each and everyone of them.....Otherwise lets just put robots in every office! Ya' know what I mean???

Grannyg

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did someone say "PARTY"? What kind of party? Never mind!! Any party will do tonight.

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Goddessatlaw

Tuesday, November 05, 2002 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Lord, Miss Suits. Have you seen at ALL what's going on in Illinois? The Republican governor has had multiple of his aides indicted for taking graft, and the handcuffs are waiting for him (the governor) the minute he leaves office in January. Unfortunately, the new Republican candidate for governor has the same last name as the current governor, and so people aren't so sure they'll be voting for the same greasy crook-type if they vote for the new Republican candidate. The Democrat alternative is a Daley machine politico, which is making anyone south of Chicago spastic. They have a real mess on their hands.