Well, Fuck

[plutherus]

Results are still coming in, and while the outcome could change based on provisional ballots in Ohio and absentee ballots in Florida, it looks like Bush will remain in the White House. The regime has already issued a statement claiming victory. I love how they gloated about Bush getting more votes than any candidate in U.S. history while completely overlooking the fact that so did Kerry since, of course, more votes were cast this year than at any time in US history. We have more population than ever before (and still growing), and a greater percentage of that population is allowed to vote, since in the past we've allowed Blacks, then later women, then later 18-year-olds, to vote.

I'm very dissappointed in Oregon, and all the other states, that have banned gay marriage. Any time we've started out by saying group X should have less rights than the rest of us, it's never led to anything good.

Diebold did their job and delivered the votes to Bush as they'd promised. In those states the used the machines, we'll never know who really voted for whom but given all the problems the machines have had (as in, not yet ready to go to production as a software project), I would be very surprised to learn they were completely fair.

Then again, if a substantial number of people hadn't supported the asshole regime, the most blatantly corrupt in US history, then no amount of fraud and disenfranchisement could have swung the election in his favor.

What this election showed was that, by and large, the people of America are a bunch of ignorant, intolerant, overly religious morons. But then again, the rest of the world already knew that.

No, I am not happy.

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[colombenoire.livejournal.com]

Diebold did their job and delivered the votes to Bush as they'd promised. In those states the used the machines, we'll never know who really voted for whom..

Exactly -- you have voiced my concerns about those machines -- I smell a rat.

Still, even without them, America seems to be fighting the wars of religion -- crusades, even -- that most of the rest of the world figured out centuries ago.