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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian
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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (8981)11/10/2000 7:30:31 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 9127
 
I don't think any of the alleged anomalies in Florida's electoral process are in any way unusual. I suspect that they happen in most states in most elections; we are seeing them now only because the election was unusually close, which has led to much closer scrutiny than usual.

I have no doubt that the rituals will be played out as prescribed by law, and that at the end of it one or the other of the lame-brained halfwits that we have nominated as candidates will concede, and the other will take office.

I don't see the procedural issues of voting and counting as a significant flaw in the system: they have been placed under stress by a very close contest, but they will survive.

The thing I see as a real and fundamental degradation of the system is the method used by the parties to select the candidates. It doesn't bother me that a close count got confused, and had to be reviewed. It bothers me that we were given a choice between two men of no appreciable intellect, character, or accomplishment, who appear to have been selected for their appearance on the TV and their political lineage.

What difference does a recount make if at the end of it you have either Mickey Mouse or Bozo the Clown?

The greatest enemy of Democracy is the voter that is too lazy or too stupid to consider any idea not conveniently packaged in a 30-second sound bite.
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