CA election officials take rubber erasers to 100K mail-in ballots! WHAT?

I don't see how this can be OK. All ballots should remain unmolested by officials. If the computers have a hard time reading them, count them by HAND. Geeeez!

By Erik Silk and Christina Farr; Peninsula Press

Drake Martinet

County workers used erasers to manually correct the smudge errors on every affected ballot.

Santa Clara County election officials Tuesday shrugged off a printing flaw that caused some 100,000 ballots to be rejected by optical scanning machines, even as county employees worked overtime to scrub each and every ballot by hand, using rubber erasers.

Elma Rosas, a spokesman for the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters, said that even though the majority of mail-in ballots were affected by the printing flaw, the issue had been largely resolved. "The computers were letting us know there was an issue," Rosas said Tuesday night. "We looked at those 100,000, and we just took care of it."

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ACORN Announces Bankruptcy

Well, what do you know. Hey, does this mean no Acorn-shaped cookies will be served at the White House Christmas party this year? Bertha Lewis blames a "right wing media blitz." Chalk up one more election day victory for the Tea Party.

Now if only we could defund SEIU.

Obama is a Sticky Lollipop

Not my child, but this pic is close.

I was driving with my youngest sitting behind me and he said, "OK, Mom." I knew this meant he was done with whatever was in his hand and he wanted to give it to me. I quickly reached back, knowing that if I didn't he would throw whatever it was onto the carpet of the car. I suddenly realized that he was giving me the lollipop that he had gotten at the doctor's office, head-first, and that he had not made much progress on it. So I found myself with a large, wet, sticky lollipop in the palm of my hand, and a long car ride ahead. After handling the difficulty, I got to thinking.

Obama's election was full of hope for many. A number of the Americans who voted for him wanted a change from politics as usual, and wanted the transparent and ethical administration that he promised. What they got was an unpleasant surprise. Most of Obama's cabinet and czars came from the corrupt Chicago world of machine politics and conducted themselves worse than their counterparts in the Bush administration. Obama's health reform consisted not of reform but of a government takeover on an impossible scale. Hundreds of governmental bodies were created to oversee doctors who will be reduced to little more than government bureaucrats. Those that stay in the business, that is. Obama voters laughed and scoffed at us when we warned that he was a socialist. How absurd, they said. How do you like increasing spending and tripling debt in one year to the point of rivaling European socialist countries. How's THAT for socialism. Do you believe us now? Do you believe now that our country is better off with socialism, the system that punishes people for working hard? Is that the America of our hopes and dreams? Or is that a country of immature babies. A place where people don't believe in themselves, don't believe in equal opportunity. Only equal outcomes, never mind who's property is stolen to make it happen.

No. Americans got a gooey, sticky lollipop thrust into the palm of their hands and they recoiled. How much, we will see tomorrow.

Remember to get out and VOTE.