honestly, there is no reason for me to be writting this diary, other than to say, for the thousanth time, we do not use diebold voting machines. before people bitch, you should at least know what your bithcing about. i'm sorry, but i am sick and tired of being treated like some rube, wholly at the whim of some voting machine that doesn't even exist where i live. you can bitch about who counts the votes; that's fine. but stop acting like all ohioans are pawns is some greater game. we are the sixth or seventh most populist state in the country for the love of god. (i'm looking at you illinois and pennsylvania.) if hackett wins, and honsestly i don't want the hangover if he loses, it is because decent people around here want something new. if he loses, it is not because of machines, it is because there are more brainwashed republicans in this district. ef-en-a, cincinnati had more "rangers" than houston.