Re: CHAT (POLITICS!!!): Putting the duh in Florida

Lars wrote:

>Right after election day, the news here reported about one place in
>Florida where some people were allegedly given ballots prepunched for
>Bush.
>
>(People who spotted it were given clean ballots, but the presumption
>was that many Gore voters didn't, and that their ballots would then
>have been rejected for double punches. (And the Bush voters' ballots
>would only have one, of course). The report also said that that county
>had unusually many void ballots).
>
>And nothing more was heard, at least here --- so what happened? I'd
>have thought the Democrats would be trying to get some Bush supported
>convicted for voting fraud, if that might turn opinion against him.
I never heard about that one. But even if it is true, that is no more
fraudulent than the obvious ploy pulled by the Gore team this past weekend.
Five hundred ballots from Israel lost, but suddenly refound when Gore
trailed by 420?  Give me a break!

This entire fiasco is exactly why I hate politicians and lawyers.



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Marcus Smith
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