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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: microhoogle! who wrote (75589)	11/15/2000 12:07:15 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

''The thing that hurts so bad is, we got our right to vote and it still doesn't count!'' said the Rev. Griffin Davis of Riviera Beach Totally ridiculous. Anyone who can't follow an arrow from a name leading directly to a punch hole is too stupid to be voting in the first place.

To: microhoogle! who wrote (75589)	11/15/2000 12:13:15 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In the 1850s, Connecticut and Massachusetts imposed literacy tests on disfavored Irish immigrants. I demand reparations!

To: microhoogle! who wrote (75589)	11/15/2000 1:00:45 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I'm sorry, that is totally absurd. Every jurisdiction has spoiled ballots, every jurisdiction disallows them if they are voted, and no one has to be literate to follow an arrow......

To: microhoogle! who wrote (75589)	11/15/2000 1:29:18 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

I was under the impression these 19,000 ballots were "spoiled" ballots and voters were given new ballots to replace them. Spoiled ballots are common and poll workers are instructed to destroy and replace as long as supplies of ballots are sufficient. In California the limit is 3 (spoiled) ballots for any one voter unless the precinct feels they have sufficient ballots on hand to accommodate their voters. Most of the time we "suffer" under the law (even election law), knowing anarchy ("no controlling legal authority") would be hell. I am surprised you do not complain that the ballot was not available in any number of languages to be "fair". Poll workers are allowed to help even to the extent of punching the ballot for someone. In California they can take the ballot to those in a wheelchair etc. That said, you cannot insist that people not make "mistakes" and allow "do-overs" at some future date. No one walks away from the voting booth with "absolute" proof that they voted correctly or indeed that their vote was counted. I cannot prove I voted for Bush, you'll just have to take my word for it.;) We have faith that the system is sufficient to the task.