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

To: Vendit™ who wrote (2673)	11/19/2000 2:23:59 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

Hi Vendit, however I have no intention of letting a judge cast my ballot for me as I am sure you feel the same way. No, actually, that's fine with me. It's also fine with me that the parties do whatever they choose to in smoke filled rooms. Just as you are as well as everyone who is posting this thread. No, I believe you are mischaracterizing me here. I'm more of an ambivalent observer with a keen eye for the hypocrisy and crassness of the entire situation. Both sides are taking low road approaches, the Dems with their refusal of absentee ballots based on things like missing postal marks when in the normal course of military operations, none are used. And the Republicans with their silly attack on the honest election workers in disputed counties. Both unseemly. Both nasty. Both exactly what one would expect in so close a race. In the instance of the disputed military absentee ballots, I've got a hypothesis I'd like you to consider for me. Say you are a Republican partisan on a large naval vessel and you discovered on the morning of Nov. 8 that your candidate was in trouble in Florida. Would you possibly be tempted to contact as many people on the boat that you could ascertain were leaning in your direction politically and make absolutely certain that they had gotten their ballot in? And in the few instances where they hadn't, you would collect them ex post facto and make sure they got sent in without a date posted stamp? Knowing that they could have an impact on the election. I think I know a few partisans who wouldn't see this as being dishonest, just clever. How about you? So far Bush rules in spite of the Gore corruption. And putting industry representative on the air pollution board in Texas to weaken enforcement standards isn't corrupt? Best, Ray