© 2008 Votelessness. 
Rush Limbaugh is eating up some serious column-inches in the papers, the ‘zines (both e- and maga), and he’s hot shit in the blogosphere (which, despite how it sounds, is nothing like the Thunderdome). His wildly inappropriate and utterly reprehensible use of his radio program to encourage widespread election fraud has earned him another stint in the middle of the spotlight.
Hillary Clinton apologized to black voters for remarks made by Geraldine Ferarro while serving as a member of Clinton’s finance committee. Ms. Ferarro insinuated that Barack Obama would not have made it as far in the race for President if he were not black. Clinton made haste to apologize for the remarks which many (including her campaign advisors) viewed as culturally insensitive. No consideration was made for the fact that Ms. Ferarro’s remarks are absolutely true. But, true or not, those comments could have hurt someone’s feelings and there is no place for that in government.
Electronic voting machines manufactured by Diebold (now Premier Elections Solutions) proved how much easier voting can be in the digital age. In Illinois, in the special election held to replace Dennis Hastert electronic voting machines did voters the courtesy of telling them how they should vote.
Representative Heather Wilson of New Mexico is accused of buying votes in her state’s presidential primary election. Ms. Wilson reportedly* paid $35 (American) per hour for voters to show up at the Republican Delegate Convention for two hours. That results in a net total of $70 per vote.
Just because a Hollywood franchise grosses a couple billion dollars, doesn’t mean it’s not prophecy. Pay attention everybody. The Sarah Connor Chronicles is on every week. Watch it. See what happens when we give the machines too much power…
In the hotly contested Democratic Primaries in Ohio this Tuesday many polling stations ran out of paper ballots, which prompted the Obama campaign to sue to keep many stations open an additional hour and a half. Obama’s spokespeople explained that it was intended to allow time for more paper ballots to be delivered.