ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?

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From: "Mac Breck" <macbreck at access995.com>
Date: 9 Nov 2000 23:01:12 -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 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: ATTN JMS: Opinion on Bush's Win?


> >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.

You'd think that a light bulb would have gone on in the election officials'
heads in 1996.  "Hey, we got 15000 throwouts.  Maybe there's a problem."
That's who should have taken the initiative and redesigned the ballots.

> 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.

And you'd think they'd remember this, and fix the problem.

Mac



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 10 Nov 2000 00:17:51 -0700
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>And you'd think they'd remember this, and fix the problem.
>

Cause it ain't in their interests to fix it, since it's a conservative
republican governor in charge, and it's a liberal county in question.

Enlightened self-interest.

 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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