Pat- OT- From Today's WSJ:
<<And Florida judges have been willing to impose some radical remedies. The most celebrated case of recent times occurred in Miami's notorious mayoral election of 1997, when widespread allegations of absentee ballot-box stuffing eventually overturned the election of Xavier Suarez, a Harvard-educated Cuban-American lawyer.
After failing to win by just 155 votes, Mr. Suarez's opponent, Joe Carollo, organized teams of people to knock on doors and interview voters, gathering evidence that many of the voters whose names appeared on absentee ballots hadn't cast them. A judge's decision in March of the following year to order a new election left the city without a mayor for a week -- while both men claimed temporary title to the post. But then a state appeals court ruled that all 5,000 ballots should be tossed out, making Mr. Carollo the city's first Republican mayor.>>
Noticed you couldn't be bothered to respond to my question (post 14201) about what kind of Republican "shenanigans" you were referring to. So I think I can safely ascribe your "glass houses" jibe here to a certain partisan, even snotty, churlishness, not one based in any kind of considered evaluation of the matter. Oh, I'm sure if you look you'll find some irregularities perpetrated by Republicans, but I submit activities like stuffing the absentee ballots is far more the norm than among Democrats. So perhaps you'll understand why some of us regard the Democrat's touching concern for the sanctity of the voting process in the current presidential race to simply be another tactic in their effort to gain power. Other than a petulant, unsubstantiated comment on the matter, you've done nothing to dispel my contention.
Nice hobbies and contributions about JDSU, though,
Larry |
