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Critic-at-Arms: Voter Frauds -The Sierra Times
By Keith R. Wood © 2003
It's getting a bit tiring to hear the continued whines that Duhhh-Bya was "selected, not elected," or that he "didn't win the popular vote."
I didn't vote for George the Second, though I admit that his performance following 9/11 has me seriously considering voting for his reelection. I'm not even a Republicrat -- er, Demican -- uh . . .well, you know what I mean, those of you who think that the Republican and Democratic parties are actually separate . . .
Anyway, I mention this because there are those who will think that I support Duhhh-bya because of party affiliation, or because I like his politics.
No, I'm not supporting him, I'm slapping down the people who are still having a hissy fit about Prince Al having been sent back to private life.
The numbers are pretty clear . . .or are they? The vote-count procedures vary from state to state, even from one county to the next. Some precincts have pollwatchers from one or more of the political parties involved, while others are either not considered important or they are considered "safe-seat" areas, where one party's candidate is expected to be elected overwhelmingly.
However, if we learned anything from Florida's experience in 2002, it is that our normal counting procedures, even when the focus of worldwide attention, leaves plenty of room for debate.
This weakness, of course, has been exploited down through the years by political machines of various bent, but the masters of this seem to be Democrats. They will unleash packs of enthusiastic college students in a neighborhood, paying a small fee for each new Democratic voter registration returned. This is how I (briefly) became a Democrat, courtesy of some sleight-of-hand!
Mention the phrase "graveyard vote," and Chicago comes to mind, where the Daley Dynasty holds sway, despite stunts like his midnight-surprise assault on Meigs Field . . .
. . .but this brings us back to the Florida recounts (the only show with more reruns than "I Love Lucy").
With a century of expertise in stealing elections, using a ballot literally designed by Democrats, and throwing out shiploads of absentee military ballots, even with the hands-on help of Daley Too, the Democrats were unable to hand over Florida.
Let's ignore the allegations of massive vote fraud in New Mexico and other states, where even cursory investigation suggested that the true popular vote went to Duhhh-Bya. Let's forget all about Prince Al's home state, which went to his opponent. Let's just be content that those states more or less balanced each other out, handing the decision to a state where even political machinery rusts into uselessness unless properly lubricated.
This is perhaps why the Democrats lost. If they had had a more effective get-out-the-(living)-vote program the other tricks would have given bin Laden, Hussein and Paris Jack the kind of weak, ineffective American president that they had come to rely upon. As it was, they were unable to get enough Northeastern transplants to make up for the Elian Backlash in the Latino precincts, and chicanery just couldn't close the gap.
The general perception of Democratic must have some basis in fact, so suppose that 1% of Florida's Gore votes were illicit. Suppose that 2/3 of the excluded military votes were for Bush. Both of these numbers are probably low, but in either case, George W. Bush really did win the Presidency by popular vote.
It will be more clear in 2004, and unless Duhhh-Bya stabs his core constituency in the back (as his father did) he will be reelected with a strong majority.
I might even cross party lines myself . . .it will counter one of the who-knows-how-many votes I cast in Chicago . . .where I've never lived . . .
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