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

To: PartyTime who wrote (89934)	11/27/2000 12:32:14 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Respond to of 769667

Arguments are becoming redundant, increasingly spun (euphorism for propagandized), and totally boring. The world is tired of the obscene bickering and it is time for Al Gore to order his legion of lawyers to go home and concede the election. The situation nonetheless points to several glitches in the election process that must be addressed. First, a nation-wide, standardized ballot must be developed and voters trained to use the equipment. When a voter registers they will acknowledge, by witnessed signature, familiarity with the form and it's completion. If they lack such proficiency or cannot operate the election machine, they will be required to attend a training session, well before Election Day. Secondly, never again should military persons on active duty be denied the right to have their vote counted. These individuals do not have access to their local boards for clarification of form and intent. Individual military units do not have, nor is it reasonable to expect, the capability to advise those serving of unique state and municipal voting requirements. This is in sharp contrast to those retired folks and others, in Florida for example, who refuse to take personal responsibility for their voting errors. Thirdly, Patients with diagnosed mental disorders that debilitate the thought process, including senile dimentias of the Alzheimer's type, should not be allowed to vote - most of them don't know family members much less their difference between Al Gore or G. W. Bush. Additionally, they will not be able to remember the mechanical procedures in some cases and will totally out of touch with issue realities. Fourth, A random forensic investigation of the hand-counted ballots, such as we see in Florida, should be undertaken to identify for voter fraud and ballot alteration. I understand Judicial Watch has been granted a right of ballot review in Florida. Fifth, multiple voting could be curtailed by marking individual voters, for uv. identification at subsequent polling sites. Sixth, non-citizen and multiple voting, as well as ballot tampering should have criminal consequences that are inforced. Ted

To: PartyTime who wrote (89934)	11/27/2000 12:35:38 PM
From: Srexley	Respond to of 769667

Thanks for the response, PartyTime. At least I can see how you justify your position now. Most will not (or can not) answer that question. But when you say: "compliance was impossible" you must be forgetting that Valusia (sp?) county did it on time. Bigger counties, more counters. I will say it would be very difficult, but NO WAY is it impossible. Please look up the word impossible if you disagree with this. Keep in mind that it is quite generous to let the candidate cherry pick where he wants to do the counts. Nobody said the process would be easy. Gore should have used some of 75 lawyers to GET THESE COUNTIES COUNTING instead of looking for all kinds of other technicalities that may have allowed him to take the election. When you say: "according to the machine's inventor, can show an error rate of three to five percent" are you suggesting that these counties are the only place in America that use these machines? If they are not accurate then should we re-count every precinct in the country that used them? Also note that the machines have an error rate, but it is not biased. It IS biased to only count in the demcratic counties. Hence a tough timeline to get it done. To the rest of your points I see how you are looking at it, but say so what. The crux of the whole situation is the dems want one favorable law (recount request wihtin 72 hours), but not the other (finish it in a week). Your argument that this is IMPOSSIBLE is NOT TRUE.