Nick Anderson for November 02, 2012

Won by Romney/Ryan!

Why do other states even bother to vote if Ohio gets to select the President?

You can go from “news” site to “news” site and get different, and opposite, results. They and exit polls should be curtailed."I have to agree with you on this one, especially for election night reporting. Some people on the west cost see the the result tally hour after hour, feel the election has already been decided and give up their own right to vote. I, for one, can wait till morning to see the results.

Hey, ho way to go Ohio. (Cue the Pretenders.)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA56J8zlAdo

In California we do feel our vote for the president will not matter. However, there are many other important items on the ballot.Yes, the electoral college must go. It keeps the United States broken up into individual republics. We are one nation, indivisible.

Won by Obama

I really feel for the poor voters of Ohio — bombarded 24/7 with relentless political ads and politicians of both parties pandering to them in the most obsequious ways. It’s another example of how the obsolescent electoral college unduly influences how we select our presidents.

If New Jersey or New York were in play for their electoral votes, politicians of both parties would be paying a lot more attention to their post-Sandy plight and promise to rebuild a lot faster.

The most important job Ohio has is overlooked: get rid of John Boehner for the good of the nation! Bring him back to his home tanning booth and leave him there!

Please Ohio, don’t turn us into a corporatetocracy.

OBAMA LANDSLIDE 2012

The nearest thing to certain in this election is that there will be no “landslide”.

It always amazes me how quickly the Cons forget the First Amendment – and the reasons for it.

The Republican Secretary of State and Election Chief, Jon Husted of Ohio just added an untested patch to the ES&S tabulation system in 39 counties.………….In short, the contract is for an application called EXP, which exports voting results into a specific format after the data from the central tabulator has been organized by the ES&S Election Reporting Manager (ERM). The ERM program itself directly accesses the main tabulator database and the results are then exported, by EXP, to a text-based file.………….“It’s not entirely clear how the new version of EXP will differ from the existing one, though the contract specifies the older version created XML-formatted files instead of plain-text CSV files. The new version of the EXP program is installed onto the tabulation computing systems of the Ohio counties which use the ES&S system, so this updated version is a new version of the existing software. It is either a “patch” or an upgrade or a new installation. Distinguishing between those descriptions, in this case, seems to be a distinction without a difference made by McClellan. In either case, it’s new software being applied onto the existing central tabulation system computers, without either state or federal certification, just days before the 2012 Presidential election.

By describing it as “experimental” software, it seems the state is attempting to skirt the legal requirements for state testing and certification by the Ohio Board of Voting Machine Examiners."………………………..“Another question I’d asked of Husted’s office was, if all that EXP did was simply convert files from one simple format to another, wouldn’t it have been far less dangerous to install the software once at the Secretary of State’s office and simply convert files there for the Reporting System, after they’d been sent to them by the counties, rather than install 39 uncertified pieces of software on 39 different central tabulators in 39 different Ohio counties just days before the 2012 Presidential Election?

I received no answer to that question either.…………………………http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9698

^got it!