A blog written by Manchester College students studying the 2008 presidential campaign.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Will they be counted right???

With election day tomorrow there has been some discussion of chances of voter fraud. In 2004, multiple forms of voter fraud occurred, including voter intimidation, fraudulent registrations, multiple ballots cast and votes bought for money. Already during the 2008 election cycle, a dead woman in Missouri cast an absentee ballot, individuals were arrested for voting twice in Florida and people in Ohio registered and voted on the same day. I've never really been 100% sure how the voter polls work and how they are added up but with the amount of people in the U.S. there is bound to be some mistakes isn't there? With this doubt McCain-Palin campaign launched the Honest and Open Election hotline to help citizens learn the location of their polling place, as well as report any instances of irregularities at the polls, including voter fraud, intimidation, violence and electioneering. I believe that this is a type of interpersonal communication from the McCain campaign. He is showing every voter that he cares for them and that he wants the same thing to happen that they do, Get it done right.

1 comment:

LKS said...

I was really happy to see there were no major problems this year, at least that I had heard of. I feel like the problems our country has had in the past with counting votes made people question our system and if anyone's votes really mattered. I think this year many more people than normal felt like their vote counted, me being one of them.