since the recent elections were decided by the slimmest of margins?
818219
Just be patient Karl, hopefully, things will move to help our votes really be our votes. In the meantime, I put a link in that may interest you.
1158943
Are you talking about gerrymandering?  This old concept was employed by politicians to redistrict their service areas to gain the most benefit.
769375
The longer they take before an election, the more likely they are to mess up and take themselves out of the competition. Not so very bright.
486926
nowdays its reservation and the dirty vote bank politics that the politicians are playing.\n\nbut yes otherwise ;- bollywood
135913
Depends on who is counting the last couple of presidentual elections have not been very honest.
1085966
It's like when you roll a snowball down a mountain, it just gets bigger and bigger. After losing 2 straight elections the demoratic party's hacks were so disillusioned, they went into desparate smear and attack mode on anything G.O.P. Now, with groups like moveon.org and other left wing propoganda peddlers in overdrive, it has gotten a bit out of control.
156020
With the inconsistancies in the last 2 elections, we need to make sure we have a paper trail. That means either a receipt at computer voting machines or an actual ballot. No computer is perfect and not every computer operator is ethical and unbiased. With the vote counts in the last 3 elections so close, we need to make sure an accurate cound can be made and VERIFIED.
979928
you would think is was . but most voters have already made their minds up . and the polls show the demarcates winning by small % it's all up to the voter now .vote the republican out of office
842333
They are doing what every State is doing today, recounting votes. The other States are not getting as much attention because the candidate with the least amount of votes has conceded victory. This is not the case in Virginia and Montana. There are lawyers who are going to every district in each State, and making sure there was no human error in keeping track of the votes. There have already been 1200 votes found in Virginia that were originally given to Webb. It is a long process. They are also counting all the provisional and absentee ballots as well. The crazy thing is, this is only the beginning; if, after this recount, either loosing candidate wants to have another, they can. This will take weeks to sort out.
893615
May be they lost the faith in the system,and staying home make the things more complicated.If the politicians Knew that 100% of voters are going to vote they will surely behave in another way and will not take any thing for granted.
741675
If you mean Record margin,I have that answer\n\nIn Alathur, the CPI(M) candidate, M. Chandran, who was the district secretary of the party earlier, won with the biggest margin in Assembly elections in the State: 47,671 votes. Such a huge margin was a surprise even for the LDF election managers.\n\nMr. Chandran was dropped from the party State secretariat after the Malappuram State conference.\n\nHis nearest rival in Alathur, A. Raghavan of the Democratic Indira Congress-Karunakaran (DIC-K), received only 25,560 votes and the BJP candidate, G. Salprakash, received 6,885 votes.\n\nSuch a humiliating defeat for the DIC(K) candidate is said to be because of the disappointment of the local Congress leaders in allotting the seat to the former
768779
Ha! Don't look now but after counting your gains during the election, you overlooked the trend of the Democrats to turn to Conservatism! Lieberman, Casey, Webb, and several other Dem gains came from a new movement to move toward the center! While the Dems obviously won, so did Conservatism!\n\nLieberman earned MY respect!
361387
There are a few close races, but frankly, all indicators point to the status quo (which means a Republican majority).  The caveat here is that between now and November is a political eternity...anything can happen.  I can provide links if you like.
496068
no..that place is a mess...\n\nbut what do you expect from corrupt politicians trying to fill their own purses
703844
So powerful people can steal elections. This is a huge deal. All americans need to fight for clean and fair elections. We could lose everything because of this problem alone.
952782
Your vote most certainly counts.  Many elections have been decided by few number of votes.\n\nTwo recent examples-- 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were really close in Florida and Ohio respectively.  Had more voted on either side, it may not have been as close.
847889
Yes, i heard all day today how people were given the conditional ballets because many of the machines were malfunctioning and in other precincts many dems were turned away. I have a feeling that republicans won't want to request a recount after all, cuz they'll realize all the cheating they created and they don't want to be embarrassed when it turns out they suppressed millions of votes, all of them democrats!