Buffalo Boy's Blog

Here we are, 8 days before the election and I can't help thinking that this election is going to in some way shape or form be stolen again or that something is going to go horribly wrong in one of the all important battle ground states. Its like rooting for the Bills and Sabres, you know they are doing well but your just waiting for them to fuck it all up.

All these stories about the voting machines in Ohio and Virginia that change your vote, denying people their vote because of some minor details that don't match at the polling place, long lines, confusing ballots in North Carolina. It all sounds too familiar. 2000 all over again.

I thought after that 2000 election and the whole Florida recount I heard George W. Bush say that he was going to implement voter reform to help with the ballots and insure the security of our elections? I guess I was wrong.

What is wrong with the supposed greatest democracy in the world that we can not even trust our own system? Why does one state do it one way and the state next to it do it completely different?

What is so hard about having a universal ballot, if not for the local races, but at the very least for the federal elections.

Its incredible that we think we can teach other countries about democracy and freedom, when we can't even get our system right. Lets face it, our voting system is far from perfect and yes ACORN is just one minor example of how its bad at both ends. The voter registration end is far more secure because they do screen every single registration, the whole thing with ACORN being "caught" is laughable, they are required to "catch" themselves and report it by law.

The other end of voting is the end where the fraud comes in. Provisional ballots being thrown away, computer glitches, confusing ballots (that shouldn't even be an issue after Florida). Its just surreal that we have this cockiness about us, that our shit doesn't stink and this voting thing is so great here in the US. Well, from my point of view, we have a long way to go.

Stealing elections by what the Republicans did in 2000, that is more communist than any liberal idea Barack Obama has. Power hungry politicians steal elections and there is a name for that. They are called dictators. John McCain with each passing day is sounding more and more like one with his incredibily odd statements that they will win despite the polls.

There is not one poll that shows McCain even close. The one I go to, the Yahoo! News poll shows Obama up by close to 7-10 points. CNN has Obama up on all their polls. Even Fox News showed leads for Obama. 

So remember, come Election Day, barring any monumental slip up by Obama, if this thing is even close, somethings up. And if something does screw up, lets just say I have a feeling and it ain't good. After this election I think who ever the president ends up being, even if it is McCain, I will have a ton of respect for the one who tackles the issue of securing the voting system in this country.

For that kind of thing to even come up, being the world leader in democracy, it should embarass everyone that exercises their right to do so that this thing can be so in doubt and so corrupt.