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To: Ilaine who wrote (45123)	12/7/2000 4:06:01 PM
From: s-words	Respond to of 436258

>>And you don't think those 25,000 innocent voters should be disenfranchised.<< If those voters are anything like me, they aren't so innocent.<g> Unless Democrats had attempted to correct their ballots and were denied, I can't see throwing out votes.

To: Ilaine who wrote (45123)	12/7/2000 5:19:16 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

>> disenfranchised.. I have heard that term tossed about quite a bit over the past few months. Doesn't "disenfranchise" mean to strip of all civil rights, such as habeus corpus, freedom of assembly, etc.? Those who are incarcerated are disenfranchised, for example. But being denied the right to suffrage as indicated in the US and various state constitutions does not seem to qualify as disenfranchisement, in the strict sense. To use an analogy: if I am arrested for staging a protest because I did not have an assembly permit, does this mean I am disenfranchised?