To Be Announced...

THE DEMS ARE GOING TO LOSE THEIR SHIRTS

Everyone...and I mean everyone...is predicting or betting or resolved to the fact that the Republicans will lose enough seats in the US House or Senate in order to lose control of one or both. Confused? Basically, it comes down to the fact that the Democrats have so much more going for them and are going to "run the table" on Republicans on November 7th.

I think they're wrong...and I have proof:

NYTimes: New Laws and Machines May Spell Voting Woes

It's a story about voting irregularities...3-weeks before the election. Apparently these new fangled machines that they desperately wanted in order to fix the problems with punch cards and the like...are so difficult to use and program and...

As dozens of states are enforcing new voter registration laws and switching to paperless electronic voting systems, officials across the country are bracing for an Election Day with long lines and heightened confusion, followed by an increase in the number of contested results.

“We’ve got new laws, new technology, heightened partisanship and a growing involvement of lawyers in the voting process,” (THANKS, Al Gore!) said Tova Wang, who studies elections for the Century Foundation, a nonpartisan research group. “We also have the greatest potential for problems in more places next month than in any voting season before.”

Election officials in many of the states are struggling with delays in the delivery of machines before the election as old-fashioned lever and punch-card machines are phased out. A chronic shortage of poll workers, many of them retirees uncomfortable with new technology, has worsened matters.

Folks...it's just excuse making. The media is setting up for the possibility that their predictions of a Democrat-controlled House or Senate are wrong. And since liberals are never "wrong" about anything, they've got to have something to blame it on.

Meanwhile, votes in about half of the 45 most competitive Congressional races, including contests in Florida, Georgia and Indiana, will be cast on electronic machines that provide no independent means of verification.

“In a close race, a machine error in one precinct could leave the results in doubt and the losing candidates won’t be able to get a recount,” said Warren Stewart, policy director for VoteTrustUSA, an advocacy group that has criticized electronic voting.

A recount like in Florida where we had people deciding on the true intent of a voter based on how pregnant a chad looked?

Mark my words. Republicans will maintain control of the Senate and House...and not lose more than single-digit numbers of seats. And it'll be George W Bush and Karl Rove's fault for stealing the election again.