Hi Lee; <OT> In one of my early post about this vote
thing I predicted it would not resolve itself nearly
as soon as the pundits were saying.
In fact if it is settled by the courts without a re-vote
it's going to cause a serious schism that will last for years.
See if you can find the BOOK , THE BEST JUDGES MONEY
CAN BUY" it's a shocker ( and documented) about just how corrupt so many of our Federal Judges are.
it may be hard to find
Message 14772478
The electoral vote thing is mostly a sham, but beyond
that the "popular vote" can prevent a protest vote
from being effective.
IE your >> Heck I would have voted for the Roadrunner from Loony tunes, as long as it didn't say Al Gore on it
OK lets look at that and turn it around , just say you
wanted "Copper Head" out and on the other side is
Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck and Peter Rabbit to pick
from. ( while in your mind Peter Rabbit would not be as
bad as "Copper Head" and the other two don't have a
chance in hell so you vote for Peter.
Meanwhile the "good old boys power club" who wants Copper
Head but is afraid Peter has a chance so it was them
who slip enough money to both Mickey and Donald who are
to dumb to even know where the Money is coming from.
The result is Mickey and Donald while they don't get
a lot of votes do "split" the protest vote enough
that Peter can't win hence there is no way to get rid
of Copper Head, he wins ( like I've seen more than once)
with out getting a majority but only 35% of the
total votes. Poor Peter only gets 34% the other two
"who were unknowingly shills for the Good old Boys" effectively spilt the remaining 31% making
your protest vote worthless, however if there
was a run off every one knows over 2/3 of that 31% spilt
would go for Peter, and give him over 55%..none the
less the "popular" vote thing has let "the good old boys
club " retain power.
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I know the above looks extreme but I have seen it happen
right here in Texas, and not all taht long ago.
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No matter who you would now pick, the day will come
that where there is not a clear 50%+ you will find
that not having a run off will sooner or later bite
you on the ass.
Run off elections are the only way to resolve what would
happen if the "shills" were out of the way.
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As for the Electoral Collage, that's a throw back
to the "slavery days" and what most historians
( omit from History ) is not only was it based on "population" but "slaves" were counted even though they couldn't vote. This gave the Slave owners and
masters an unfair edge, and at the time
taht had a lot more to do with what the Civil War was about than the North's Pretense that they really wanted the Slaves to be free.
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I know for a fact that even today there is pressure on
the Temporary Census workings to "UP THE COUNT" as
the grants from the Federal Gov depend on our population,
so it gets down the fact that most Federal grants are
unfairly distributed to the States who can staff the most
effective "fudge factor" shit heads they can hire at
Census time.( this also effects the Electoral Collage)
Hence we wind up with a system that the most effective
liars get enough of an edge to keep leading us down a crooked path.
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What if Grants and the Electoral Collage were not doled
out via something that's impossible to really check up
on. Let if be the amount of people who take the time
to actually VOTE. While that could be manipulated to some
extent it could be checked a lot better, and you can
bet you would see a rise in Voting.
Jim |
