Crazy voter turnout...

[CosmicCowboy]

I early voted but have driven by my neighborhood polling place three times today and the line has been out the door by 15 or 20 people every time...I have NEVER seen this kind of a turnout in an off year election...

[Spurminator]

Good. It's raining cats and dogs in Dallas, so I'm guessing the stations are lighter here. Fortunately I also early voted.

[boutons_deux]

Georgia Flooded With Complaints Over Crashed Election Website


The Georgia Secretary of State's office crashed on Tuesday and stayed down for several hours on Tuesday, The New York Times (http://elections.nytimes.com/2014/liveblog?post=343-voting-problems-in-georgia-concern-civic-groups-4584&utm_source=item-permalink&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=election-2014) reported.

The site is where people can get information on where their polling site is or register to vote. :lol

The voter protection group, Election Protection, said it received 778 calls before mid day from frustrated voters about the down website.

"It inconvenienced a lot of voters," Bryan Thomas, the communications director for state Sen. Jason Carter's (D) gubernatorial campaign told TPM.

"We worked really hard to make sure that any voters that reached out to us got proper information about where their polling information is."

Thomas estimated that the site had been down for a couple hours.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/georgia-secretary-of-state-website-crashed?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

It's a much more complicated website that https://www.healthcare.gov :lol

I'm sure Fox will scream and whine about this Georgia fiasco, showing incredible incompetence and waste of Georgia's taxpayers' $Bs.

[baseline bum]

I early voted in 2012 when I was going to be out of the country on election day and you'll never get me to do it on election day again. So nice doing early voting in 2 minutes.

[boutons_deux]

HACKERS COULD DECIDE WHO CONTROLS CONGRESS THANKS TO ALASKA’S TERRIBLE INTERNET BALLOTS

When Alaska voters go to the polls tomorrow to help decide whether the U.S. Senate will remain in Democratic control, thousands will do so electronically, using Alaska’s first-in-the-nation internet voting system. And according to internet security experts, including the former top cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security, that system is a security nightmare that threatens to put control of the U.S. Congress in the hands of foreign or domestic hackers.

Any registered Alaska voter can obtain an electronic ballot, mark it on their computers using a web-based interface, save the ballot as a PDF, and return it to their county elections department through what the state calls “a dedicated secure data center behind a layer of redundant firewalls under constant physical and application monitoring to ensure the security of the system, voter privacy, and election integrity.”

That sounds great, but even the state acknowledges in an online disclaimer that things could go awry, warning that “when returning the ballot through the secure online voting solution, your are voluntarily waving [sic] your right to a secret ballot and are assuming the risk that a faulty transmission may occur.”

That disclaimer is a pre-emptive admission of failure, says Bruce McConnell, who served until 2013 as the top cybersecurity officer for DHS. “They admit that they are not taking responsibility for the validity of the system,” McConnell told The Intercept. “They’re saying, ‘Your vote may be counted correctly, incorrectly, or may not be counted at all, and we are not taking any responsibility for that.’ That kind of disclaimer would be unacceptable if you saw it on the wall of a polling place.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/03/alaska-election-nightmare/

Repug competency in governance! :lol

[ElNono]

I early voted but have driven by my neighborhood polling place three times today and the line has been out the door by 15 or 20 people every time...I have NEVER seen this kind of a turnout in an off year election...

Any local elections that matter?

[FromWayDowntown]

Any local elections that matter?

CC's in San Antonio, so the District Attorney's race (which has become a farce of modern electoral politics) is likely to have been an additional draw.

[ElNono]

CC's in San Antonio, so the District Attorney's race (which has become a farce of modern electoral politics) is likely to have been an additional draw.

I see, not familiar with what's going on there.

[baseline bum]

CC's in San Antonio, so the District Attorney's race (which has become a farce of modern electoral politics) is likely to have been an additional draw.

Really? Seems like the only race not about Obama tbh.

[DarrinS]

Will watch MSNBC for laughs

[DarrinS]

Really? Seems like the only race not about Obama tbh.

Best POTUS ever, tbh.

[DMX7]

I am deeply concerned about voter fraud... tee-hee.

[HI-FI]

I've voted in midterms before but really wanted to be apart of this one but didn't. just been too busy with some shit. was hoping though people would turn out, especially those who feel pissed about the direction of the country. I was hoping there would be a reckoning of sorts, sounds like that's what happened. :lol

[SnakeBoy]

Will watch MSNBC for laughs

Why? All they're going to do is spin this shit to say that now the GOP needs to pass their liberal agenda if they want to keep power.

[ChumpDumper]

lol Republicans are such sore winners

[spurraider21]

lol Republicans are such sore winners
that happens after every election

[Winehole23]

I early voted in 2012 when I was going to be out of the country on election day and you'll never get me to do it on election day again. So nice doing early voting in 2 minutes.that's about what it took me yesterday. the line was too long on Friday.

[boutons_deux]

Voter Turnout in Midterm Elections Hits 72-Year Low

The last time voter turnout was this low, the U.S. was fighting WWII

The last time voter turnout for a national election was as low as it was on Nov.4, Hitler was still in power, and Mitch McConnell was only nine months old.

Only 36.4% of eligible voters voted in this year’s midterm elections, down from 40.9% who voted in 2010, according to preliminary analysis byMichael McDonald (http://online.wsj.com/articles/election-2014-results-show-limits-of-big-data-1415585721)at the University of Florida. The last time voter turnout was that low was 1942, when only 33.9% of voters cast ballots, according to the United States Elections Project. (http://www.electproject.org/national-1789-present)

http://time.com/3576090/midterm-elections-turnout-world-war-two/

Repugs fantasize that they have a mandate to ... what? :lol