ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?

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From: "Kurtz" <malkin at erols.com>
Date: 9 Nov 2000 11:11:23 -0700
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"Paul McElligott" <paul_mcelligott at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:8uendl$4d8$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> In article <3A0AD5F5.35D733A9 at radix.net>,
>   Steve Brinich <steveb at Radix.Net> wrote:
> >   That is the standard ballot used in local elections, and specimen
> > copies were distributed in advance of the election.
> >
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> Actually it's very likely that the ballot caused just as much confusion
> in previous elections.  Those elections just weren't close enough for
> it to matter.  Now it matters.
>

Then the correct time to register a complaint is BEFORE the
votes are in, not *after* an election whose outcome is not desired.
Somehow, the ballot was OK and fair until this mess occurred.





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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 9 Nov 2000 21:29:21 -0700
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>Then the correct time to register a complaint is BEFORE the
>votes are in, not *after* an election whose outcome is not desired.
>Somehow, the ballot was OK and fair until this mess occurred.
>

That's because nobody TOLD them that there WAS a problem with 15,000 similar
ballots being thrown out in '96.  Nobody even KNEW about that little revelation
because nobody had the power to find out.  Now they do.

This is the same state, remember, where the mayoral election in Miami was
thrown out in '93, with the judge in question declaring this one of the worst
cases of corruption, voter interference and election fraud he'd ever seen.  So
it ain't like there isn't precedent for this.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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