Elections

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.

A revolution? Not quite. But the first paragraph of an editorial from a southeastern Minnesota newspaper chain speaks volumes about the change that has overcome the American electorate, at least as represented by a small-town newspaper publisher in a chiefly rural area in the upper Midwest.

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9:30 PM:  Left off here for a while – about to be interviewed at the UBS Forum…I think.  Our producer had to run upstairs and was a bit out of breath.

6:50 PM:  Early returns continue to stream in from across the country.  According to multiple sources with whom I’ve spoken over the course of [...]

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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”

A version of this quote has been attributed to Stalin, an attribution that has been hotly debated. Thom Hartmann, among others, has said that Rush Limbaugh repeated this phrase on November 24, 2000, in the midst of a critical month in U.S. [...]

An effort to improve voter confidence in the results of electronic machine tallies is underway via the Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota and the League of Women Voters. Last year, Minnesota became one of 13 states to require a random precinct hand recount.

Last night about 10 p.m. I confidently told my wife, “Mike Erlandson’s won in the 5th.”

“Oh,” she said, not really caring one way or the other. You see, we live in the 1st Congressional District of Minnesota, which at it’s nearest point is about an hour and a half by car from the state’s population, [...]

There’s bound to be some crossover voting in today’s Minnesota primaries, but how much won’t be known till the final tallies are in. Crossover voting is when members of one political party vote in the primary of another instead of their own. This occurs when they feel their votes will have more weight in another [...]

When and where should I vote?
You should vote at your regular polling place (if you haven’t moved it should be the same place you voted in the last election, but you need to check to make sure it hasn’t been changed). Look up you polling place here.

I’m not one for conspiracy theories.  I don’t think that there was a cover-up at Roswell; I believe that the Warren report generally tells the truth; I don’t think that 9/11 was the joint product of the US government and terrorists working side-by-side; I’m pretty sure that President Bush doesn’t have Osama Bin Laden in [...]