© 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.
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.
Electronic voting machines manufactured by Elections Systems and Software (ES&S) lost over six thousand three hundred votes in the 2002 general elections in Alabama. Sometime after the polls had closed and well after elections workers had gone home, the optical scan machines used to tally the vote in the gubernatorial race lost the votes which were all cast for Don Siegelman, the Democratic candidate for governor.
Florida screws up again. Voters all over the state were confused and confounded in their attempts to vote in the state’s primary elections. Democrats trying to cast their ballots were told that there was no Democratic primary in Florida this year. They were told this by state election workers
“Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.” -Joe Stalin
In June of 2006, Rolling Stone published an article that claimed that the Ohio election of 2004 was stolen. It was written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and claimed that 350,000 voters were prevented from casting their ballots in the election. Exit polls indicated that the election was going to go to Kerry, […]