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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1638)	11/10/2000 9:44:20 PM
From: SOROS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

My opinion only: I've heard at least 3 reports where the "confusing" Palm Beach Ballot was taken to 7 and 8 year-olds and told to vote for Gore. With no further instructions, 100% of the children CORRECTLY marked the right spot. Now if the basis for this whole argument is that because the ballot was too confusing that several thousand adults marked the wrong spot or marked two spots and so they were denied their "right" to vote, I say this: They got their "right" to vote. They have demonstrated that for whatever reason, their mental capacity is lower than a 7-8 year-old. Now you have someone like Jesse Jackson (among others) saying that the USA should allow this population of people -- with intelligence levels below 7-8 year-olds -- to decide who is the next President. Never mind that thousands of votes have been thrown out in every previous election for the very same reasons. In other words, there are rules, and if you break the rules (for whatever reason -- on purpose, because you are stupid, because you are distracted), you can't play. If you let mentally handicapped people pick your President, then you deserve to get a mentally handicapped President. If the 96% of at least adult-level, intelligent people (above 7-8 years-old anyway) don't have the guts to simply say "We want to be compassionate to the retarded, but we don't want them getting multiple chances to vote", then the people in the USA have a lot more to be fearful of than they realize. It means the country has gone from ignoring the population that watches "Jerry Springer", etc. to one that is being ruled by this population. Tax the overachievers into oblivion so they can't provide jobs to the middle and upper class, dish out money to every lazy bum in the country who refuses to work, let the lowest intelligent people choose your leaders by being manipulated by the unscrupulous, and you will not have a country that is the envy of the world. You will have a country just like the rest of the world. One in which Gore's "wealthiest one percent" becomes a wealthiest .0001 percent (read that dictator and a few cronies), and the rest of the population goes from Poverty, Poor, Lower Middle Class, Middle Class, Upper Middle Class, Wealthy, Very Wealthy, Rich, Filthy Rich to just Poor and Lower Middle Class and see how happy all the people in the disappearing categories are at that point. Perhaps then they will understand how a free society has allowed these stupid liberals to become over-paid actors, athletes, singers, etc., and "union types" will see that unity means very little when you have no freedom and no money. I'll shut up now before I offend someone. I remain, SOROS

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1638)	11/10/2000 9:53:54 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 6710

This one...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=14781642

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1638)	11/10/2000 10:03:58 PM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

Florida Ballot Lawsuit Plaintiff Fined in 1988 for Fraud November 10, 2000 (CNSNews.com) - Andre Fladell, the Palm Beach County, Fla., resident who is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking a new presidential vote in his county because of an allegedly confusing ballot, is a long-time Democratic operative in the area who was fined and placed on probation for Medicare fraud in 1988. According to paperwork from the Florida Office of Professional Regulation, Fladell - a Palm Beach area chiropractor - *was fined $1000 and placed on six months licensing probation for improperly receiving Medicare monies* for X-rays and other procedures.** Fladell claimed at the time he was unaware of the daily operations of his office, according to the newspaper reports. cnsnews.com\Politics\archive\200011\POL20001110q.html