ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?

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From: "Mac Breck" <macbreck at access995.com>
Date: 9 Nov 2000 22:32:06 -0700
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From: "Jms at B5" <jmsatb5 at aol.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?


> >Seems a lot of Democrats are too dumb to figure out how to fill out a
> >ballot.  I know it's tough with the arrows pointing to the proper
> >hole and all.
>
> Except of course that:
>
> 1) Most of the people in that area are older retired citizens, who need a
> little help...

So, they can ask for help.  If the first person doesn't know, ask the
second, etc.

> 2) The order (Bush, Buchanan, Gore) in order on the ballot is not in
keeping
> with state law...

See elsewhere in this thread.  It's not in keeping with the law for paper
ballot s(i.e. pencil & paper ballots), *not* machine punched paper ballots.
For machine punched paper ballots the punch can be before *or* after the
name, hence the vertical alignment was OK by Florida law.

> 3) That 19,000 votes in this county were tossed out this year, and 15,000
in
> 1996, means it must be a hell of a lot more misleading than it seems....

NO.  There was greater turnout this year, hence the increase.

>
> and:
>
> 4) Even stupid people get to vote, and can raise a concern if the vote is
> cockeyed or disenfranchising.  Heck, stupid people even get to run for
> president in this country...

and after you vote, if you made a mistake and the card has gone into the
ballot box, there is no turning back.  It's done.  Voter screwed up.
Period.

Mac


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>  jms
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> (jmsatb5 at aol.com)
> (all message content (c) 2000 by
> synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Nov 2000 00:14:50 -0700
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>> 1) Most of the people in that area are older retired citizens, who need a
>> little help...
>
>So, they can ask for help.  If the first person doesn't know, ask the
>second, etc.

Except that a) they were given only 5 minutes, and b) help in the form of
friends or translators wasn't allowed.

>> 2) The order (Bush, Buchanan, Gore) in order on the ballot is not in
>keeping
>> with state law...
>
>See elsewhere in this thread.  It's not in keeping with the law for paper
>ballot s(i.e. pencil & paper ballots), *not* machine punched paper ballots.
>For machine punched paper ballots the punch can be before *or* after the
>name, hence the vertical alignment was OK by Florida law.

I'm not talking about where the punch.  I'm talking about the *order of the
candidates names*.  Buchanan should have been lower than Gore, not above, by
law.

>and after you vote, if you made a mistake and the card has gone into the
>ballot box, there is no turning back.  It's done.  Voter screwed up.
>Period.

And if it were an evenly-distributed error, then I'd agree.  But when it's
concentrated in one county, which is primarily populated by people who might
vote against the governor's brother...then that's a bit different...and makes
one ask, did they fall or were they pushed?

I'd like that question answered, one way or another.

 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2000 by
synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
to reprint specifically denied to
SFX Magazine)




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