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

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (3477)	11/27/2000 6:52:34 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6710

Ray, I've given up trying to talk about fairness with you and most other Lefties. Fair to you is if your guy wins, nothing less. Not every person who supports Gore on this thread is like that, but you are. I've already discussed what I thought about the ballot applications, several days ago. The persons requesting the ballots did not fill in their voter registration number. Probably they did not have their voter registration card with them. I don't carry mine with me, my wallet is full of other stuff - stuff I use every day or every week or maybe just once a month or so - driver's license, insurance card, library cards for the Library of Congress, National Archives and the National Library of Medicine, bar cards, copy cards for all the different libraries including the law libraries, Giant card, Safeway card, Fresh Fields card, etc. My Kaiser card. Only one credit card. The voter registration card is in a box in a desk drawer with a lot of other cards I don't carry around with me. I don't need my voter registration card when I vote, after Motor Voter we don't need to show ID to vote anymore. So if I were overseas, maybe on an aircraft carrier, maybe in a jeep in Bosnia, would I have my voter registration card with me? Maybe not. Does that make me irresponsible? Naturally, you would think so, because it is convenient to your cause at this precise moment. But if it were you in the jeep in Bosnia, and someone filled in that number for you on your application for a ballot, not the ballot, but the request for one, I'd think they were performing a simple ministerial act. It's not falsifying an affidavit, it's filling in a number. To you, it's a "gotcha!" The fact that you want to make something of this speaks volumes about you and your candidate and your party. I'm looking forward to getting rid of your candidate and doing my best to defeat your party. You, I can't do anything about but simply shake my head in bafflement. Let me ask you a question - suppose the person requesting the ballot sent in a letter saying "I don't have my voter registration number with me. Can you please fill it in?" Would it be ok for the staff to do so? If not, why not? And if yes, how is this any different?