I grew up in Lorain County. 
I'm pretty sure that being a 20-something is a chronic pain. Or that 20-somethings are chronic pains. Not sure which.you might discover that there are shocking numbers of 20-somethings in chronic pain.
But that's far too sensible.Finally, our police chief issued a statement that MMJ dispensaries weren't any more attractive to criminals than any other business and would the press please reflect that in their reporting.
Not saying it doesn't. I am, however, saying that some doctors are more scrupulous than others about who deserves a pot card. Also, if your state does legalize MMJ, be prepared for some weird stuff to go down before the industry fully settles into place. Some locales in Colorado have banned dispensaries altogether. Boulder hasn't and won't, but from what I've seen some establishments are much classier than others. There's one not far from me that I passed off to my parents as "I dunno, might be a yoga studio" and then another with an electronic reader board out front advertising "Special of the Week: Blue Kush $50/oz." and similar. And then there was, across from campus, the infamous Dr. Reefer with its neon signage. That one went out of business.axordil wrote: OTOH, pot kept my dad off of morphine until the last month or so of his cancer, so it does have some uses.
I think this is the kind of naive attitude that allows elections to be stolen. Where else would you expect to see electronic vote rigging talked about? In the corporate mainstream media? How can it be that we will again allow private companies with strong Republican affiliations sole access to the easily manipulated data from voting machines they own? Is it hysterical to suggest that vote counting should be transparent? Is it hysterical to suggest that people just might be willing to cheat when so much is at stake?River wrote:Me too. Neither side needs those kinds of whispers. But I've only seen that discussed on sites like DailyKos and AlterNet so I'm putting it in the hysteria bin.Voronwë the Faithful wrote: (Of course, who knows whether the fact -- if it is even a fact -- that Tagg Romney, Mitt Romney's son, owns a part of the business that makes the voting machines that are use in Ohio will have any influence on that state's vote. I certainly hope not, and I would think that any right-thinking person would hope not regardless of their political affiliation.)
That made meVoronwë the Faithful wrote:Anthy, I thought you LIKED yov.
I think that answers both of your questions.But elections officials in Ohio's Hamilton and Williams counties -- the only two of Ohio's 88 counties that use equipment made by Hart InterCivic -- as well as company representatives say there's no way such meddling could occur.
Both counties use a paper balloting system in which results are tallied by scanners made by Hart InterCivic. All programming of the machines, diagnostic testing, and vote tabulation is done by elections staff in each county and no vote tabulation is done over the Internet, county election board representatives say. The paper ballots are there as backup and can be recounted with Democratic and Republican party representatives on hand.
"There is no truth to the idea that anyone could get into our system and tamper with the results," said Hamilton County elections board deputy director Sally Krisel.
