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To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (8988)	9/4/2002 11:47:59 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13815

<<However I long for the days when the market was running. >> Those days ended when the institutions got hold of 1 bil plus shares of many major techs. Check out the quantity of INTC Jan options, where 37000, for example, represents 3,700,000 shares. . finance.yahoo.com IMO they are holding the shares, selling the calls and dealing with the puts in a very lucrative manner. They prefer to maintain a channel, have the power to do it, and if the institutions are not buying the stock has a difficult time moving up. And they have plenty of shares and dont need to buy. To get some real uppage, I think we have to deal with smaller cap stocks, and it helps if they dont have options or have very few. Regards Sig

To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (8988)	9/10/2002 11:07:57 PM
From: D.B. Cooper	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13815

Some times the more things change, the more they stay the same. what we have here is a third world state. Fla. Polls Report Serious Problems Tue Sep 10,10:14 PM ET By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer MIAMI (AP) - Florida's first big test of its new elections system turned into a nightmare Tuesday as polling stations opened late and problems cropped up with the touchscreen voting machines brought in after the 2000 debacle. Hundreds of would-be voters were turned away. 9/11 Special Coverage News, features, photos and more. Go there now. Gov. Jeb Bush ordered polls statewide to stay open an additional two hours, with those in the Central time zone finally closing at 10 p.m. Bush had sharp words for officials in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where there were many complaints. "It's shameful," Bush said. "The state put up money — significant sums of money — for training, for machines. ... There's no excuse for not having precinct workers in a precinct for voting, no excuse for not turning on the machines." Problems were reported in 13 counties, including six of the seven that were sued after the 2000 vote. The glitches ran the gamut: Ballots jamming and tearing in machines, workers unable to get machines working for hours, at least 600 people leaving polls without casting votes, Democratic voters given Republican ballots. "I frankly wonder what in the hell have they been doing for two years," said Secretary of State Jim Smith, Florida's top elections official. The state changed voting laws and outlawed punchcard ballots after the 2000 presidential election. It spent $32 million to reform its election system, and more than half of the state's voters were expected to use new touchscreen machines Tuesday instead of punchcard and butterfly ballots. But problems began immediately. Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno ( news - web sites), who was seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Bush this fall, was delayed from voting after workers struggled to get the touchscreen machines operating. She waited several minutes while an election official booted up one of the 18 machines. Some voters left, exasperated. Elsewhere, ballots jammed as workers put them through optical scanners and dozens of polls workers didn't show up. "It's deja vu all over again," said Democratic national Chairman Terry McAuliffe. "Even before the polls close, we know that election reform in Florida has failed its first test." Republican national Chairman Marc Racicot said some problems could have been expected in the first election after such widespread changes. With just over two months before the next federal elections, the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate have passed separate elections overhaul measures. Miami-Dade, Broward, Volusia, Duval, Hillsborough and Orange Counties were among those where problems were reported. All six had been sued after the 2000 vote. Among the other glitches Tuesday: _ In a predominantly black Miami neighborhood, voting at one precinct didn't begin until 11:45 a.m., nearly five hours after polls were supposed to open. Officials said 500 people left without voting. _ At a nearby precinct, the touchscreen machines stopped working at 11:50 a.m. and were shut down for nearly five hours, causing more than 100 would-be voters to be turned away, election worker Kerry Martin said. _ In populous Orange County, election workers said 42 percent of ballots would have to be counted by hand because they were tearing as they were fed through optical scanning machines, making them unreadable. _ In Broward County, which has more registered voters than any of Florida's 67 counties, some precincts didn't open on time because poll workers didn't show up. One opened nearly two hours late because workers didn't have the right equipment. _ In Broward and Palm Beach Counties, some polling stations closed at the original scheduled time despite Bush's order. Workers at one Broward precinct held the door shut and cursed at voters who tried to come in and cast ballots, witnesses said. At one Palm Beach precinct, workers shut off the voting machines at 7 p.m.; they couldn't be turned back on and the remaining voters had to use paper ballots. The election protection program, made up of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( news - web sites) and other civil rights groups, said they documented dozens of problems in at least four counties. Members dismissed the decision to extend poll hours. "It's not going to solve the problem because a lot of people won't be able to come back or will be discouraged from coming back," said Elliott Mincberg, vice president of People for the American Way. Still, Palm Beach County elections chief Theresa LePore said she faced few problems. Some poll workers didn't show up, so some polls had minimal staffing levels, but all opened on time. *********************************************************** Flordia is an embarrassment! Political rant for the day