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khaosworksFelt like crud since this morning. Raspy throat, stuffed nose more than usual. Came home, popped a Nyquil, went comatose for six hours... now feeling muscle aches, eyes are red, throat still the same. Not sure what happened, since yesterday I was feeling fine.
In fact, I feel so flat that I can't be bothered to write up the fact that, as you've heard so often in the stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining since the presidential election by the left... that concession speeches aren't binding, and that Ohio is going ahead to count at least 93,000 votes. I'm not even going to comment on how apparently Warren County was alone in that buckeye state in excluding media from watching the vote count, allegedly for homeland security reasons which have not been made clear.
Of course, you've also heard about the overcounting e-voting machine in Gahanna (how anyone can resist making a Gehenna pun is beyond me) county, and that the discrepancies between the number of votes cast for Bush and Kerry and the number of registered Democrats in certain small Florida districts.
Bev Harris, of blackboxvoting.org, who revealed severe security flaws in Diebold's e-voting system in the year prior to the election, has plans to file Freedom of Information Act requests for the voting logs of counties that used these machines. Ralph Nader has tried to initiate a recount in New Hampshire over e-voting machines as well, involving irregularities which he claims "favor President George W. Bush by 5 percent to 15 percent over what was expected."
I feel the same way probably a lot of you out there do. A mixture of admiration at the tenacity of people not giving up; frustration at having to go through all this when I was accepting the reality of a Bush victory; pessimism at the chances of this all affecting the vote count when all the dust settles; fascination at how now it's not a single state that's being fought over but it's coming down to counties and individual machines; wondering if this all going to wind up in the Supreme Court again, and thinking how long before we can get on with our lives no matter who takes office in January?
So... all this going on. Too sick to comment. Just gonna keep watching it all and wondering where it'll end.
In fact, I feel so flat that I can't be bothered to write up the fact that, as you've heard so often in the stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining since the presidential election by the left... that concession speeches aren't binding, and that Ohio is going ahead to count at least 93,000 votes. I'm not even going to comment on how apparently Warren County was alone in that buckeye state in excluding media from watching the vote count, allegedly for homeland security reasons which have not been made clear.
Of course, you've also heard about the overcounting e-voting machine in Gahanna (how anyone can resist making a Gehenna pun is beyond me) county, and that the discrepancies between the number of votes cast for Bush and Kerry and the number of registered Democrats in certain small Florida districts.
Bev Harris, of blackboxvoting.org, who revealed severe security flaws in Diebold's e-voting system in the year prior to the election, has plans to file Freedom of Information Act requests for the voting logs of counties that used these machines. Ralph Nader has tried to initiate a recount in New Hampshire over e-voting machines as well, involving irregularities which he claims "favor President George W. Bush by 5 percent to 15 percent over what was expected."
I feel the same way probably a lot of you out there do. A mixture of admiration at the tenacity of people not giving up; frustration at having to go through all this when I was accepting the reality of a Bush victory; pessimism at the chances of this all affecting the vote count when all the dust settles; fascination at how now it's not a single state that's being fought over but it's coming down to counties and individual machines; wondering if this all going to wind up in the Supreme Court again, and thinking how long before we can get on with our lives no matter who takes office in January?
So... all this going on. Too sick to comment. Just gonna keep watching it all and wondering where it'll end.
