Nov. 9th, 2004

jackola: (Dick Cheney - oil)
Indiana

Laport County
The day after a two-and-a-half-hour delay in counting ballots due to a glitch in a computer program, LaPorte County election officials are still trying to figure out what happened. "Maybe there was a power surge," LaPorte County Clerk Lynne Spevak said. "Something zapped it." At about 7 p.m. Tuesday, it was noticed that the first two or three printouts from individual precinct reports all listed an identical number of voters. Each precinct was listed as having 300 registered voters. That means the total number of voters for the county would be 22,200, although there are actually more than 79,000 registered voters.

Mecklenburg County
Questions started arising Wednesday when Republicans pointed out a significant discrepancy in the original unofficial results: more early votes than early voters. Elections officials immediately moved to audit the early vote totals and released new numbers Thursday. In response to Observer questions Friday, Dickerson said some vote totals were typed in by hand election night rather than electronically downloaded because of a computer glitch. ...Dickerson said he believes the county's voting machines functioned properly.

...The audited vote totals issued Thursday derailed a Democratic sweep of the three at-large county commissioner seats -- for now, at least. It left the second, third and fourth vote-getters within fewer than 100 votes of each other.

Florida

Collier County
Voter Turnout was 127,409. 128,352 votes were cast for president.

Duval County
Voter Turnout was 379,257. 379,614 votes were cast for president.

Glades County
Voter Turnout was 3,446. 4,188 votes were cast for president.

Highlands County
Voter Turnout was 33,996. 41,491 votes were cast for president.

Lake County
Voter Turnout was 123,751. 123,938 votes were cast for president.

Okaloosa County
Voter Turnout was 89,485. 89,707 votes were cast for president.

Orange County
Voter Turnout was 386,104. 387,752 votes were cast for president.

Osceola County
Voter Turnout was 63,589. 82,178 votes were cast for president.

Leon County
Voter Turnout was 136229. 136,314 votes were cast for president.

Palm Beach County
Voter Turnout was 452,061. 542,835 votes were cast for president.

Volusia County
Voter Turnout was 209,052. 228,358 votes were cast for president.

This is just some of the facts!

Information on these states and other states, including graphs:
http://ideamouth.com/voterfraud.htm

ALSO:
MSNBC's Keith "Bloggerman" Olbermann on voter fraud: "More Votes than Voters"
jackola: (domo - garfield)
A conservative blogger recently suggested that 38 states in America that may be inclinded to pass "a specific constitutional amendment to kick out the systemically troublesome states and those trending rapidly toward anti-American, if not outright subversive, behavior". He's referring to 12 states in particular, 8 of which are from the original 13 colonies.

Which states would go?
California, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Maryland, and Delaware.

He suggests that the 38 states keep the name "United States of America" and that the other 12 could either call themselves "the dirty dozen" or go their seperate ways, "probably straight to Hell".

Oddly enough, it doesn't seem liberals would mind, so long as they get to keep D.C., Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, and Hawaii.

I'm glad that conservative blogger wrote that, because it proves something I've felt for some time: the further right you go, the more ignorant to factual information you become and the more you base your decisions on what religion tells you or religious leaders tell you.

How the hell does he think Jesusland would survive without the three largest cities in the United States?

... Especially when you consider that the red states rely on the blue states for survival.

Generally, blue states pay more taxes than they receive back and red states receive more taxes than they pay.

Adjusted Federal Expenditures Per Dollar of Taxes Over Time by State 2003
States that did more federal spending than they paid in taxes:
6.59 District of Columbia
1.99 New Mexico
1.89 Alaska
1.83 Mississippi
1.82 West Virginia
1.75 North Dakota
1.69 Alabama
1.60 Montana

1.58 Hawaii
1.58 Virginia
1.52 Kentucky
1.49 South Dakota
1.48 Oklahoma
1.47 Arkansas
1.47 Louisiana
1.36 South Carolina

1.36 Maine
1.34 Maryland

1.32 Idaho
1.31 Missouri
1.29 Tennessee
1.23 Arizona
1.19 Utah

1.14 Vermont
1.13 Kansas
1.13 Wyoming
1.09 North Carolina

1.08 Pennsylvania
1.06 Iowa
1.06 Nebraska

1.06 Rhode Island
1.02 Ohio
1.00 Florida

1.00 Oregon
States that paid more taxes than they got for federal spending:
0.57 New Jersey
0.64 New Hampshire
0.65 Connecticut

0.70 Minnesota
0.70 Nevada
0.73 Illinois
0.78 California
0.78 Massachusetts
0.80 Colorado
0.80 New York
0.82 Delaware
0.84 Wisconsin
0.86 Michigan
0.90 Washington

0.95 Georgia
0.96 Indiana
0.98 Texas




Source: Census Bureau; Tax Foundation's "State-by-State Tax Burden Allocation Model."

I added the blue and red myself, indicating which way they went in the 2004 Presidential Election.

1.00 means that the federal taxes collected yields the same amount of federal spending.



What do you think?

Would you want to live in The United States of Canada or Jesusland?

I'll say USC... more liberal and better off financially.
jackola: (conan - Triumph the insult comic dog)


There's likely going to be a seat opening up on the Supreme Court soon.

U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft is resigning.

This would be the worst possible situation: Supreme Court Justice John Ashcroft.

Noteables about John Ashcroft
  • Ashcroft is noted for having taken offense at the partially nude statues of Liberty and Justice in a meeting room where he held press conferences. He ordered the statues covered with multi-thousand-dollar curtains; it has been said that this action was taken because he felt that reporters were photographing the statues to make fun of his church's opposition to pornography. Ashcroft denied these allegations.


  • Ashcroft is considered a leading member of the Christian right wing of the Republican Party and is one of the highest-ranked representatives of that group in the Bush Administration. As a devout Pentacostalist, he shuns such activities as dancing and alcohol consumption. Ashcroft's religious beliefs have led commentators, including Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), to question his ability to effectively enforce certain laws, especially those pertaining to abortion. Ashcroft maintained that he will enforce laws whether he agrees with them or not.


  • In July 2002, Ashcroft proposed the creation of Operation TIPS, a domestic program in which workers and government employees would inform law enforcement agencies about suspicious behavior they encounter while performing their duties. The program was widely criticized in the media as an encroachment upon the First and Fourth Amendments, and the United States Postal Service balked at the program, refusing outright to participate. Ashcroft defended the program as a necessary component of the ongoing War on Terrorism, but the proposal was eventually abandoned.


  • Ashcroft's opponents and critics accuse him of Big Brotherism, and have often claimed that he uses the threat of terrorism as justification for unnecessarily restricting civil liberties. Some coined the pejorative term Ashcroftism (often seen as an adjective: Ashcroftian) to refer to ideas or policies alleged to be similar to those of Ashcroft, and refer to him by sarcastic "titles", such as "Witchfinder General" Ashcroft and "Grand Inquisitor Ashcroft" (both suggesting religious persecution of innocents), or "Reichsminister Ashcroft" (referring to Nazi oppression).


  • Ashcroft is an enthusiastic advocate of the War on Drugs.


  • In 1992, while Ashcroft was Governor of Missouri, his nephews Alex and Adam Ashcroft and Alex's housemate Kevin Sheeley were arrested and charged with production and possession of marijuana. A raid uncovered 60 marijuana plants, with lighting, irrigation, and security systems, in a basement crawlspace. While the production of more than 50 plants usually results in a federal charge and mandatory jail time, 25-year-old Alex Ashcroft was prosecuted on a state charge and received 3 years of probation and 100 hours of community service. Kevin Sheeley was not convicted, and his record was sealed; Adam Ashcroft, who did not live in the house, was never prosecuted. Though Alex Ashcroft tested positive for marijuana in his first probation-mandated drug test, no further actions were taken against him. The parents of Alex and Adam have denied that the young men received a lenient treatment as a result of their connection to the governor.


You can tell I would be excited to have him as a Supreme Court Justice.

:-/

Please note that this hasn't been officially announced, it's only speculation for why he would want to resign.

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