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Re: I am Proud of the Republicans
jonathon1s
(37/M/Kickapoo, LA) 11/15/00 9:46 pm
(here is the story I found about the Electoral College)
There's mounting evidence that, if they lose Florida, the Gore campaign intends to try to sway Electoral College votes from Bush. The Village Voice reports a story from the South Carolina newspaper The State, which says that two South Carolina electors claim that they received phone calls from an unidentified person asking them to change their votes from W to Algore.
Both electors said they assume the requests came from the Gore campaign, but the paper reports this morning that the Democratic camp denies making any such calls.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just as Bill Daley denied knowing of all of these news stories out there defaming Katherine Harris, right?
Bush carried South Carolina - which has eight electoral votes - easily, with 57% of the vote. The two electors said that they would not switch. One of them, Cecil Windham, a retired farmer, said he'd "cut his arm off" before voting for Algore.
There's another case of Electoral College tampering bubbling up in Colorado. The Denver Rocky Mountain News reports that eight Colorado Electoral College members find themselves under the spotlight, not to mention under pressure, over their votes.
The eight electors were questioned by someone from ABC News about changing their votes to Gore. One elector, Mary Hergert, found the questions more like veiled intimidation than journalistic inquiry, so she checked her caller I.D. to make sure the call really was from ABC News - and it was.
Hergert said that the caller said his name was "Ed from ABC News" and asked if she would ever consider voting for Algore, then said it is unconstitutional for her to be bound by state law to follow Colorado voters' preference for Bush. Hergert, who served as Bush's Weld County campaign chairman, says that, in reality, the Constitution says nothing on the subject. "Ed" lied to her.
A second Colorado elector, Rob Dieter, also mentioned a call from ABC News when the Rocky Mountain News asked if anyone had tried to influence his vote.
ABC News spokeswoman Sue Lynn Nichols apologized for any confusion. She said a group of staffers called electors across the country with a series of identical questions for a possible story on the Electoral College vote. She said, "We feel they acted professionally." She then insisted that electors were asked questions, not challenged with statements - but refused to release the exact questions that were asked.
So here we go. We've got two electors in Colorado claiming that somebody from ABC News called and put pressure on them as to how they were going to vote, and we've got another story saying that two South Carolina members of the Electoral College claimed they've received phone calls from an unidentified person asking them, point-blank, to change their votes from Bush to Gore.
The Gore team leaves nothing to chance. Even if they lose in Florida, it isn't over. Even if they lose all the court challenges in Florida, it isn't over. They're going to go to the Electoral College, and try some hanky-panky there.
(Village Voice: South Carolina Electors Report Requests to Change)
(The State: Two S.C. Delegates Asked to Change Vote to Gore)
(Rocky Mountain News: Colorado's Electors Feeling Pressure) |
