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To: tennessee_ted who wrote (118059)12/4/2000 1:41:45 PM
From: Lane Hall-Witt  Read Replies (1) of 120523
 
Excellent post, tt. So many aspects of this episode are so profoundly disturbing that it's hard even to know where to begin. Whichever candidate ultimately wins, I hope he and the Congress have enough courage to conduct a full and open investigation of the election in Florida -- not with the cynical intent of undermining the outcome or conducting a witchhunt, but with the aim of determining exactly what went wrong and what went right down there. It's appalling that citizens intending to cast legal votes were denied their fundamental right to vote. It's equally appalling that technological flaws and legal technicalities are conspiring to deny many more legal voters their fundamental right to have their votes count.

I wish we could all agree, at the end of this fiasco, that every citizen has an inalienable right to vote and to be heard through that vote -- and that we should do all in our power to give people the means to vote (open access to the polls, reliable voting machinery) and to have their votes count (even if that means investing the time and money to count votes by hand). So many people, during this episode, have complained about how costly it would be to upgrade our voting mechanism, or how long it would take to count the ballots by hand. But is this too high a price to pay to defend our freedom to vote and to have our vote count? We have fought wars all around the world to protect democracy: is it too much to ask that we count ballots in order to protect democracy?

The principles here just seem obvious to me. It's too bad the politicians on both sides have diverted our attention so far from these basic principles.
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