Posted on 07/08/2004 9:57:50 AM PDT by kattracks
Equal Protection Under the Law BUMP!
Hopefully they are good at poking completely through the ballot too.
This means the votes ALL over Florida will be recounted if it's needed and not just from a fw select counties?
Seems Gore was upset that the Palm Beach democrats were so in the dumps over 2000 and set up a gathering where he opened the event praising democrats and how intelligent they are.
To prove his point, he called upon the crowd to produce a registered democrat.
Joe raised his hand and Gore called him to the stage.
"Joe, to prove how smart dems are here, I want to ask you a question. What is 500 plus 500?"
After a slight delay, Joe responded, "900!". The crowd was silent but a voice soon answered from the back. "Give Joe another chance!"
Gore said "Sure" and asked Joe what "100 plus 100 equaled?"
Another short silence and Joe responded "300!". Several in the crowd shouted "Give Joe another chance!".
Slightly perplexed, Gore said "Of course" and then asked Joe what "2 plus 2 equals".
A short pause in the crowd then became a loud chant! GIVE JOE ANOTHER CHANCE!
Will the pollsters be able to vote multiple times by predicting which way the chads are hanging? Will the illegals votes count? Will the dead be allowed to vote?
If they even THINK that every vote is NOT counted, you can count on "AC" (ambulance chaser) Edwards to file a class action suit against the state of Florida.
Instead, in a classic case of ignoring lessons learned, a new and unproven technology is substituted and that is just asking for trouble (think about the last time you were waiting in line at an ATM behind a clueless user). It will take another voting disaster to get these new machines debugged.
Give me the optical ballot (color in the circle) as a first choice and a punch card as the next best thing.
Ya know, why don't they just do what they do in Indiana. Go into a booth all by your lonesome, pull a lever, and walk back out. So simple, no hanging chads, no electronic fraud (did I actually say that?), no worries. It's so simple!!!!!
This issue with me works a couple ways. I don't think a 4-time felon fresh out of jail should vote. However, I do think that a truly "recovered" felon should at least be considered to regain the right. I have a good friend, who, when he was 18, he got in with the wrong crowd. He was convicted for cocaine trafficking in 1990. He did 3 years. After he got out, he started a business building and repairing computers. Today, he has 33 employees, a $250,000 legitimatelly purchased home, is an active member of the church, and loves Bush (and wishes he could vote for him in November). He has a beautiful wife and 2 great kids. This guy was simply a young idiot that got in with the wrong crowd, and has truly changed. Sure, he's a rarity, but for someone like him, who has learned his lesson so to speak, maybe its not so bad to let him regain the right to vote! He will tell you himself that he was stupid and deserved more punishment than he got, but he thanks God every day for helping him change his life.
FORGET about being poll watchers! They can be kicked out if they make one misstep. ALL FREEPERS MUST and I stress must contact the Republican county party and sign up to be election workers. THiS IS THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE ELECTION.
I don't know how it is in your county, but here we have to turn in a list to the county election clerk by july or August.
They won't know you will work the election if you don't tell them!!!!!!!
I didn't know Florida had 300,000. more registered Dems than Republicans! They're probably all the cemetery voters!
Last time they could tell them, 'punch the third one down', but it happened to be on the other page, LOL, so Nader got the votes!
This time with touch screens, they may have to print out Kerry on papers so they can match it up, LOL.
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