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Advanced Voting in Georgia

I voted in the Presidential election on Wednesday. I LOVE the advance voting idea. It's so convenient! Last time, I had to stand in line for two hours (a short time compared to some stories I heard) but this year I was in the polling place for less than 27 minutes!

Anyway, one of my coworkers wrote this:

No joking around. Here's an important heads up ...

Yesterday a friend voted early at a polling location in Austin. She voted straight Democratic. When she did the final check,lo and behold every vote was for the Democratic candidates except that it showed she had voted for Bush/Cheney for president/vice pres.

She immediately got a poll official. On her vote, it was corrected. She called the Travis County Democratic headquarters. They took all her information, and told her that she wasn't the first to report a similar incident and that they are looking into it.

So check before you leave the polling booth, and if anything is wrong, get it corrected immediately. Report any irregularities to your local Democratic headquarters.

Make sure you pass this along to your friends ...
hopefully this is all over the airwaves by tomorrow ...
check your ballet, regardless of who you vote for.

Obviously there is the implication that there is some sort of corruption at play here. I, personally, like to be more optimistic about things: See? Democrats can walk upright and work a touch screen voting machine -- more or less -- without pounding the equipment to bits with a club.

Alas, there is yet insufficient evidence to say the same about Republicans at this late date.