Bush Casts His Ballot for a Third Term

Posted by Amanda Terkel, Think Progress at 2:25 PM on October 24, 2008.

Apparently W. and Laura are fans of early voting.

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The AP reports that the President and First Lady Laura Bush took advantage of Texas’s early voting procedures and cast their ballots for the McCain-Palin ticket. Bush plans to spend election night at the White House.

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Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Deputy Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.

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Bush's vote [Report this comment] Posted by: diane42997 on Oct 24, 2008 8:39 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] He probably forgot he can't have another term (thank God!) and voted for himself. Or maybe he's pi$$ed that McCain ignored him, so he voted for Obama :) [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] unverifiable voting = wishful thinking democracy [Report this comment] Posted by: robertkamper on Oct 26, 2008 8:54 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] If he voted on the same machines and software as we did a few counties to the south, there is no way of verifying whether what went in is what will come out. Although you review your choices on a screen before you finally confirm and submit your vote, there is no paper printout confirmation of your vote to be placed into a ballot box in case anything happens to the digital storage - like a sudden power surge or a large electromagnetic field wiping the memory clean. So who knows what we really voted on here in Texas? One thing is clear - we need simple, transparent, voting technology and fair, transparent vote counting. And we need it before the next national election. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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