I actually agree with Nader. Flip a coin, given that it is already a statistical dead heat. Otherwise, whoever wins, we are going to have to hear for 4 years how the other side stole the election.
abcnews.go.com
H A R T F O R D, Conn., Nov. 25 — Green Party leader Ralph
Nader has a simple solution to the nation’s presidential
stalemate: Flip a coin.
Reviving a proposal he made about 10 days ago in Denver, Nader said
today a coin toss is the easiest way to appease the millions of Americans
who will end up feeling that either Al Gore or George W. Bush stole the
election.
“No one will ever really know who won because the margin of error is
larger than the margin of votes” separating Gore and Bush, said Nader,
the Green Party’s unsuccessful presidential candidate. “The only way
we’re going to avoid having one side saying the election was stolen is to
flip a coin.”
Not that a winner would please Nader. His own campaign repeatedly
and bitterly attempted to portray the Republican and Democratic
candidates as hopelessly wedded to corporate interests.
“Take your choice,” he told about 75 cheering Green Party supporters
at a fundraiser in a Hartford tavern. “Do you want a do-nothing
provocateur or a do-nothing anesthetizer?”
New Mexico Does It
Nader said state law in New Mexico, where Gore won by fewer than 500
votes, provides for a coin toss to resolve elections that end in a dead heat.
“So when I mention this, I’m not being flip,” he said to laughter.
A presidential coin toss could be internationally televised, and money
raised from the sale of advertising could erase both sides’ campaign debts,
Nader said. He said he hasn’t suggested it to Gore or Bush, though,
because “it’s clear they’re going to fight this out in the courts.” |
