We all know Florida's problems... but what's Oregon's excuse?

[Stark]

Come on... it's two days after the election and they still haven't announced a winner? CNN.com shows bush leading 48% to 46% in the state (over 30,000 votes ahead), but no winner declared.

What's the holdup?

 

[ViRGE]

We have a worker shortage, all the snowbirds are in Florida.

 

[BigSmooth]

I think we are using Windows-based PCs to count the ballots, and "BSOD Jones" got 65,536 votes...

 

[Midnight Rambler]

They vote by mail, and it allows for several days beyond the actual election date for the ballots to all get in. Blame the Postal Service at this point ...

 

[IBhacknU]

it's just inexpensive publicity for them

 

[BigSmooth]

Actually, our ballots had to be postmarked several days before the election, and they were supposed to all be there on election day. So something's wrong, because they are counting them up REALLY slowly.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

On CBS they just reported due to the mail-in factor, they might not have a total for Oregon until ~Thanksgiving :Q

 

[Superwombat]

hm? It's Washington that allows all ballots postmarked on election day to be counted. Oregon does it's ballot just like any other state. I guess you would just have to conclude that the vote counters are inept. This makes sense anyway, since all of the stupid ballot measures passed

 

[BigSmooth]

Superwombat, the election here was vote-by-mail only... no other state did that. And not ALL of the stupid ballot measures passed.

 

[OldSailor]

I think they voted it legal to smoke dope here this year. Once that measure passed, the vote counting kinda slowed down some. What is your big hurry dudes? We'll get it done soon as the munchies get here...

 

[Tripleshot]

OldSailor

ROTFLMAO!!!

You now know the truth! :

 

[ViRGE]

Here's how the Oregon system works:

1) All elections are vote by mail only

2) All ballots that were to be mailed had to be postmarked 5 days early or so(I don't have the exact date), so that the USPS could get them to county elections in time

3) Anything past that date had to be manually droped off at county elections, or special drop off sites

OldSailor, the mesure you're thinking of passed 2 years ago, it allows strict medical use of marijuanna(sp?)

As for our counting problems, I still blame the snowbirds. Most election workers are seniors who volunteer; and right now, we don't have a lot of seniors around.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

okay, here it is in plain English.





























We in Oregon are all f'ing morons and can't count either.

 

[JellyBaby]

Yeah Oregon get your act together.

 

[ViRGE]

FFMCobalt, not all of us are morons. We smart ones voted for Nader.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

but that still leaves you f'ing. Wait, I don't want to know anything about that part.