This is a sincere and sincerely-curious question:
Doesn't it bother anyone at all that Bush has tried to prevent (successfully to date) all
votes from being counted in order to win?
A bit. But first, all the votes were counted; some were just counted as not voted for either candidate. That happens in every election in virtually every precinct (maybe in Dix Notch or whatever it is in New Hampshire there are no spoiled or unreadable ballots, but elsewhere there are ALWAYS votes that are cast where the voter had something in his or her mind but didn't manage to make their intention clear under the rules of the voting process. Even if every ballot were to be inspected a dozen times, there would still be some votes not counted. In this case, I am more likely to trust machines which have no political affiliation to count ballots objectively than sometimes strident party members clearly trying to dig up votes to favor their party.
So it doesn't bother me that much, since he is trying to keep political decision making out of the vote counting process.
If there were a way to assure a truly fair and objective hand count, it would bother me more that Bush opposes it. But that's not the reality.
This is a sincere and sincerely-curious question:
Are Republicans truly pleased and satisfied that Bush is currently the certified winner
rather than the fully vote-verified winner?
Ah, but he IS the fully vote-verified winner. So that's a non question.
As an American (not as a Republican or a Democrat), it scares the hell out of me that
anyone can possibly 'win' an election by preventing votes from being counted.
Well, it scares me far more that the political operatives of one party can, weeks after the election is over, still be manipulating ballots, finding more ballots, etc. I don't know whether you're old enough to remember the Democratic machine of Chicago in the 50s and 60s, but there wasn't a fair election in that city in many years.
And now a sincere and sincerely-curious question back to you. Would you truly be as outraged if Gore were ahead by 500 votes and the election was certified in his favor but Jeb had his people in place in all the precincts ready to recount thousands of ballots and Bush was demanding that the courts let his brother's troops loose to work on the ballots and find him a few hundred more votes?
And another sincere and sincerely-curious question back to you. Does it bother you that two members of the Florida Supreme Court were contributors to Gore's campaign but still decided to sit in judgment on his lawsuit rather than recusing themselves?
Let's face it. This election is no longer about fairness, or voter intentions, or who gets to count what votes. It's about pure, unadulterated politics of the worst kind on both sides. Period. |
