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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: jhild who wrote (80713)11/18/2000 2:14:04 AM
From: Jimbobwae  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
To make the rather specious argument that it is ok to be less than 100% or not as close to it as we can get in such a close election for all the counties that we can, puts you on the side of wanting to elect by condoning conscious disenfrancisement

To think that 100.000000% of our population is prepared to cast a vote contrasts with reality. Do I wish this was not so? Sure.

So, do we make it 99.99%? 98.76%? No, We set up systems for qualified citizens to use to perform this privilege.

Some are easy some, as we now understand, present challenges (punching butterflies) Does this make these people stupid or less worthy? No.

It does create an artificial barrier that is flawed in its technology but ironically brings to light the failings of a small percentage of the people to be able to execute their rights.

To have others divine their intent is just a bad as tossing these attempts to vote out. In the end its not Bush or Gore's fault how this happened. To have the Dershowitz's of the world rally to protect these peoples' rights is a sick self-serving joke. They became disenfranchised through their own actions and have themseleves to blame.

If the butterfly ballot is so bad why in the hell didn't their democratically controlled board select a better system? If the people were fully engaged they would know what system produces the most reliable results and would make sure that they used it in their county.

J
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