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by Ibrahim on 08 November 2012 - 11:11
George Bush Accidentally Votes For Obama
Nov. 06, 2012
Former U.S. president George W. Bush accidentally voted for Barack Obama today at a polling place near his Crawford, TX home.
According to local reports, the two-term Republican was confused by the instructions on his electronic voting machine and mistakenly cast a ballot he intended to discard.
Witnesses say Bush argued with poll workers for several minutes afterwards in a effort to redo his vote, but in accordance with state law they ultimately denied his request.
The embarrassing incident may have gone unnoticed if it weren't for a local newspaper reporter who happened to be voting in the next booth. Suzanna Everett, a politics correspondent for the Waco Times witnessed the entire ordeal and crafted a cunning scheme to make it public.
Left On Red
Barred by ethics rules from using knowledge gained within a polling station, Everett waited for Bush to leave the facility and ambushed him with a trick question designed to fool him into revealing the news himself:
"Mr. President Fox News is reporting that you've accidentally voted for Barack Obama. Would you care to comment?"
Thinking that his mistake had already been found out, Bush sought to minimize the damage:
"Yes unfortunately because of the incompetence of the folks who designed the ballot, my vote counted for the other guy," Bush responded. He then attempted to explain exactly how the mishap occurred:
"First of all, everything was very mismaladjusted on the screen. You shouldn't put the senators and the congress people and the presidents all jumbled together like that. It's too crowded. Just confuses folks."
Bush then explained that after marking the wrong candidate, he sought to correct his error by clicking the red "Cast Ballot" button, thinking that it was designed to 'cast away' the ballot and bring up a fresh one:
"Usually red means stop and green means go. I thought I was stopping"
A New Legacy
Bush is no stranger to election day controversy, having been pushed into office himself by the Florida fiasco of 2000. In that election hundreds of votes intended for Democratic rival Al Gore went to protest candidate Pat Buchanan instead due to poor ballot design.
In an official statement released shortly after the event, former President Bush said his experiences today have inspired him to make electoral reform the signature cause of his post-presidency:
"Laura and I will be dedicating the next few years to fixing our electoral system. Every American deserves a clear, simple ballot when they go to the polling place."
However, the system Bush used has been deployed successfully around the country with little incident. A spokesperson for the company that manufactures the machines says they stand by their product:
"Until today we have never had a single instance of someone confusing the "cast ballot" button for a "cast away ballot" button. This is a problem unique to Mr. Bush, and we have no plans to change our machines."
by Ibrahim on 08 November 2012 - 12:11

George W Bush has been the subject of an election day hoax.
The former Republican president was reported on Tuesday (November 6) to have accidentally voted for Democrat candidate Barack Obama, according to The Daily Currant.
Bush was reported to have been confused by the ballot system, and the 'news' went viral across the internet.
"Unfortunately, because of the incompetence of the folks who designed the ballot, my vote counted for the other guy," Bush supposedly told the Waco Times.
However, the Waco Tribute-Herald clarified that the Waco Times does not exist and moved to rubbish the rumours.
"There is no Waco Times newspaper," the publication stated, "and no truth to the idea that George W Bush accidentally cast his vote for President Barack Obama today because of confusion over how the electronic ballot machines work.
"The post seems to have originated from The Daily Currant, a website that bills itself as 'global satirical newspaper of record'. In other words, think of The Onion."
Obama was re-elected for four more years as president of the United States, beating his Republican rival Mitt Romney to the White House.
by beetree on 08 November 2012 - 13:11
Vonissk, I wonder, now that the election is over.... will your "friend" speak to you again? I never do understand why people get so worked up one way or the other.
Poor BE4U is demoralized. It is hard sometimes to realize, you thought you were kindred to the majority and in reality it just is not that way.
Just think about how nasty everyone gets just talking about who to vote for. No wonder there are wars.
There will still be wars with Obama in office, I don't think that will change for the world, ever. Certainly not while there continue to be sociopatihic countries in our midst.

by BabyEagle4U on 08 November 2012 - 14:11

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by Two Moons on 08 November 2012 - 22:11
You guys doing ok Jackie?
Hope so anyway, it's supposed to be sunny and high sixties here tomorrow.
by Preston on 08 November 2012 - 23:11
I always liked George Carlin's take on elections and "choice". He believed we really never have had any since our nation is run by war mongers and super-industrialists addicted to wars for war profiteering. Of course President
Ike Eisenhower, perhaps one of our greatest presidents ever ended up feeling the same way and spoke out publicly against it in his last speech in public office.
Yes, George Carlin was profane, but he was on the mark so much of the time and not much fooled him. Typical social mindkontrol programmming never worked on him, ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC_wjQtfhZQ&feature=related

by Kalibeck on 09 November 2012 - 01:11

BTW-LOVE George Carlin....speaker of truth! Why don't people like to drink their water?
by Preston on 09 November 2012 - 05:11
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/11/08/rejection-of-obama-by-the-electoral-college/
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