OT: Mandatory Voting

[Fyron]

If a machine reads the ballots does that mean all the forms are the same?. As I mentioned before in Australia all the Ballots are not set up similar.

Yes, the ballots are all the same. However, that does not matter. All you need is barcode formatting along one edge to tell the machine how the specific ballot is formatted. They do this for multiple choice tests on "scantron" forms, read by machines, now, with multiple Versions of the test as an anti-cheating measure. It would certainly work for ballots.

I guess the US needs to do much more as we dont even know if george W Bush is in fact the true president of the US

It is a well established fact. Al Gore conceded the election almost 4 years ago. There is absolutely no doubt possible that George W. Bush is the current President of the USA.

[ June 30, 2004, 04:11: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[Will]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:

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I guess the US needs to do much more as we dont even know if george W Bush is in fact the true president of the US

It is a well established fact. Al Gore conceded the election almost 4 years ago. There is absolutely no doubt possible that George W. Bush is the current President of the USA.

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With apologies to the Pythons:

George W: I am your President!
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you.
George W: You don't vote for Presidents.
Woman: Well, how did you become President, then?
George W: The Supreme Court, their hair grey and thinning, hold aloft a seal of an eagle, signifying by Divine Providence that I, George W was to carry the seal... That is why I am your President!
Dennis: Listen. Strange geriatrics sitting in robes distributing pictures of eagles is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical judicial ceremony.
George W: Be quiet!
Dennis: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some judges threw a seal at you!
George W: Shut up, will you? Shut up!
Dennis: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
George W: Shut up!
Dennis: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
George W: Bloody terrorist!
Dennis: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?

[dogscoff]

ROFL! Nice one WIll.

[Randallw]

That is very funny. Maybe you should post it in the jokes thread.

[Atrocities]

I wonder if Al Gore ever accepted the fact that he lost to Florida voters stupidity?