ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?

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From: biles at wf.net (Joe Biles)
Date: 9 Nov 2000 15:40:20 -0700
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On 8 Nov 2000 21:19:01 -0700, mvp at web1.calweb.com (Mike Vanpelt)
wrote:

>In article <20001108192108.11060.00000259 at ng-xa1.aol.com>,
>Jms at B5 <jmsatb5 at aol.com> wrote:
>>If you check out cbs.com and abc.com, you will find reports of police cars
>>outside polling centers in mainly black communities in Florida ticketing people
>>who showed up to vote for minor offenses, intimidating african-americans...a so
>>called "computer glitch" which gave the Socialist candidate -- who was polling
>>literally 1 or 2 votes in every other county -- nearly 10,000 votes in *one
>>county* that may have been for Gore...
>
>James Harris, the Socialist candidate in question, has 589 votes
>in the tally from yahoo.com.  I was monitoring this tally fairly
>continuously last night as it became clear that the election would
>be decided in Florida, and I never saw any large number of votes
>for this candidate.  I wonder where CBS got this "interesting"
>factoid that he got 10,000 votes in one county?
>
>>Not to mention the GOP calls to older people telling them they couldn't vote
>>unless they *specifically registered* for this election, and best of all, the
>>call that THEY GOT ON TAPE AND GAVE TO THE FBI from a GOP phone bank saying
>>that people had to bring their voter registration cards with them to be
>>eligible to vote, and if they didn't, it could cause them legal trouble.
>
>None... Not one... of these accusations from the ABC web page
>were anywhere near Florida, so they have zippo to do with the
>results in Florida.
>
>>We're looking here at some massively serious allegations of vote fraud,
>>intimidation, and more.
>>
>>The GOP has literally tried to steal the election.
>
>I seriously doubt it.  
>
>It's called "projection", accusing someone else for doing what
>you're doing.  Like Londo and the little technomage home movie in
>Sheridan's office.  The Democrats have pulled and continue to pull
>these sorts of stunts, with the greater success that comes from
>long practice.  On the other side, there are the non-citizens who
>have been receiving Voter ID cards from the Democrat Party in the
>mail, the Wisconsin votes bought from winos with a few packs of
>cigarettes, and most despicably, the Clinton administration's
>unsucessful attempt to disenfranchise all the active duty military
>people who are stationed outside the US by keeping them from
>getting absentee ballots.
>
>I think it will utterly hilarious if the final vote that clinches
>Florida for Bush is from one of those Navy guys whose mother had
>to raise several kinds of Hell with some Congressmen and Admirals
>before her son was able to obtain an absentee ballot.
>
>
>By the way, you didn't mention this one, but the so-called "confusing"
>ballot that they're claming "tricked" a bunch of Gore voters into
>voting for Buchanan...
>
>Here's a much better picture than the one on ABC's web page:
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>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001108/pl/mdf129505.html

My U.S. History professor today drew a picture of the ballot on the
board and said, "Anyone for meant to vote for Gore and voted for
Buchanan is just a moron." I would say anyone that would vote for
Buchanan for any reason is a moron, but I digress. 
>
>I'm sorry, but anyone who can't figure this one out has no
>business voting.  Or driving.
>
>-- 
>Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon,    | Mike Van Pelt
>and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor.    | mvp.at.calweb.com
>It's been far too long.     -- Gene Cernan            | KE6BVH
>



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 9 Nov 2000 21:49:52 -0700
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>My U.S. History professor today drew a picture of the ballot on the
>board and said, "Anyone for meant to vote for Gore and voted for
>Buchanan is just a moron." I would say anyone that would vote for
>Buchanan for any reason is a moron, but I digress. 

Your professor is intolerant, especially given the fact that a great number of
those voters, by demographic, were older, senior citizens -- many retirees in a
heavily jewish-population area -- and when you hit a certain age, things become
more problematic.  I have a relative for whom I recently bought a tape player
so she can listen to music, and had to find a very simple one because she
wouldn't be able to handle anything more complicated than a big STOP and STOP
button.

Let's come back to your professor when he's 75 and see if he still thinks
people who make mistakes like this are morons.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
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