…last night?
Mark “I’m Not Guy” Richie, former DFL “community organizer” and party hack, and current Minnesota “Secretary of State”.
In my four hours on the air last night, I could not once get election results from the POS SOS website. I got constant server errors; “the server can not handle current traffic levels” (and, as this is written, it’s still down!).
Under Mary Kiffmeyer – the utterly capable SOS that Richie deposed in the bloodbath of 2006 – the site ran like a charm.
I don’t expect Mark Richie to be in there cranking out ASP code on his own – but delivering election results to the people is a part of his job. A big part.
I think the move to toss this amateur poseur from office needs to take on Manhattan Project-level urgency.
Hypberbole.. wow
Mark Ritchie presided over nearly flawless voting/vote counting of a near record turnout. He helped to provide access to thousands of overseas US/MN citizens/residents. He helped to enfranchise many, many new voters, worked with the DoD to do so.. did Kiffmeyer – no. Getting people involved in democracy was not her agenda.
Kiffmeyer, is affiliated with a group that tried to intimidate Democrats into not voting. She also put up signs attempting to scare voters at the polls in 2004…. yeah Mitch, she was flawless. She also came down on both sides of the same issue, incidentally each time in support of the GOP candidate, what a shock.
And you carp about the “hyperbole” of others, wow. Your obsession with ridiculous spin is the only unseemly thing I’ve seen lately. Show some class.
Mark Ritchie presided over nearly flawless voting/vote counting of a near record turnout.
What, does he want a medal?
THAT’S THE JOB HE CAMPAIGNED FOR.
Kiffmeyer, is affiliated with a group that tried to intimidate Democrats into not voting. She also put up signs attempting to scare voters at the polls in 2004….
Both statements are context-challenged and dependent on accepting some really dimwitted DFL talking points.
And you carp about the “hyperbole” of others, wow.
By your leave, my lord.
Your obsession with ridiculous spin
Your comprehension of the English language is really not good, is it.
EVERYTHING YOU DISAGREE WITH IS NOT “SPIN”.
Good lord, take a remedial logic class.
Sorry, penigma. I won’t take you, or your imaginary friends, at your word. Support your accusations of Secretary Kiffmeyer or be discounted.
You should check out the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sos.state.mn.us/
and see that Secretary Richie seems to have glided along on a web presence redesign from August 2005 (Secretary Kiffmeyer’s).
Netcraft doesn’t tell you much:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.sos.state.mn.us
except that the infrastructure radically changed between 2003 and 2006. Unfortunately they say it moved from Solaris + Apache to Linux + IIS. *snicker*
http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/33616804.html?elr=KArksD:aDyaEP:kD:aU2EkP7K_t:aDyaEP:kD:aUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU
My God it’s worse than Nazi Germany.
Well, I was gearing up to agree with Mitch — that’s okay; we’d both live — when I clicked the link. It was Kiffmeyer’s administration, not Ritchie’s, who moved from Apache to IIS. Bad Ritchie, for not fixing that; worse Kiffmeyer, for doing it in the first place.
A sin against technology and economy, joelr, certainly. But a successfully served page is a successfully served page. *shrug*
There was no trouble getting to the Sec State website at the election party I was at. Maybe they had a secret code.
Eh, I wasn’t having huge problems with the SOS site. It was slow and occasionally I got 404 errors but overall not too bad.
Especially I had a browser windows auto-refreshing the precinct results for 37A and 37B every minute. And seperate windows auto-refreshing the results for Kline, Bachmann, Paulson, Outdoors Amendment and Coleman every five minutes.
Actually my biggest issue is that the SOS reporting of numbers dragged behind the Dakota County website. Dakota County was reporting poll numbers about an hour ahead of the state. Only problem is Dakota County wasn’t breaking it down by precinct….which is important when you when you want to know whether the precinct that just reported in was one of your good or bad ones.