Just browsing the news while bored at work and I am already seeing a stupid amount of voting issues coming up. Florida is a mess. An election worker in Oregon has been fired for changing ballots in the GOP's favor. A voting machine in PA was caught on video selecting Romney when the user clearly chose Obama. Long lines and huge waits for people all across the country.

Add to the mix the reports for months now about business owners intimidating their employees to vote their way and we have ourselves a mess folks.

This leaves me with zero hope in our voting system. It is a mess. We should be ashamed.

Yes this is a rant, I am aware of that.

Disheartening. I'm already disaffected though. I may just go build a cabin and live in the wild or something.

@walstib said:

The shame is when the Phish message board sounds exactly like the 24 hours news networks unnecessary premature panic.

No panic here. Just calmly shaking my head at this system I am supposed to be so proud to be a part of.

Grab your gun and run to the bunker........I'll be at the pharmacy

@TheBag said:

or less we end up with a florida 2000 nightmare.

Exactly my point though. I also feel that for every issue we do pick up on, every cheater caught, every machine malfunction, etc, there are even more issues no one is noticing.

I get your point about it being better today then ever, but that doesn't make me feel any better TBH. It just means everyone has always been trying to cheat the system. Why can't we stand up and be proud and let true un-tampered with democracy win the day.

Too idealistic I know. It is my weakness.

@harroldHOOD said:

this shit cray....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpGd74DrBM

looks like another person has never used touchscreens before. Click 2 cm down and it'll work like all other outdated touchscreen tech

Voting issues were much worse earlier in our history.......read about Tammany Hall from the mid 19th century to the early twentieth century and you'll realize we've come a long way.