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2016 Postmortem

SleeplessinSoCal

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5. in 2001 CA went to great lengths to prevent "hanging chads".

Reply to JTFrog (Reply #2)

Tue Nov 29, 2016, 01:13 PM

Nov 2016

I was at the Democratic convention which addressed Florida's problems of 2000. And then we all tried the "new and improved" computerized voting machines.

Lesson: where there is a will, there is a way.

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