To: Senormechanico
"hang onto their wallets" -- No, this is way too passive.
If the court battle doesn't overturn this travesty, protest by any and all lawful means. Say it loud, say it proud.
To: California Patriot
To: California Patriot
Fraudoire quoted Gandhi during her coronation. She may not realize how prophetic that was. We The People will protest this travesty and make our voices heard. The Queen of King County can count on that!
28 posted on
01/12/2005 4:04:20 PM PST by
Splatter
(A foolish man is able to learn, has the opportunity, and does not do it..)
To: California Patriot
"hang onto their wallets" -- No, this is way too passive. Speaking of wallets, I just thought of a way to clean up elections:
- Require all precincts to keep votes and voter rolls separate; ballots from different precincts must be machine-separable.
- If the total number of 'fishy votes' found in all precincts that cast a majority of their votes for the winner exceeds the margin of victory, the loser has the right to demand a revote.
- The costs of any revote ordered because of 'fishy' votes will be assessed to the jurisdictions sponsoring precincts, in proportion to the number of 'fishy' votes attributable to those precincts (assessed to precincts regardless of who they cast the majority of votes for).
- The assessment for #3 shall be limitted to $10,000 per fishy vote; any election costs beyond that shall be covered from state general revenue.
- The jurisdictions against whom costs are assessed shall have the right and duty to recover those costs, when possible, from any individuals responsible for either casting or failing to prevent the fishy votes.
Voters may not mind when their election officials get away with fudging things in their favor, but I don't think anyone is going to be happy with election officials whose 'fudging' results in large assessments against them. A system such as described would create incentives for people to try to reveal fraud in opposing party's jurisdictions while minimizing it in their own.
36 posted on
01/12/2005 10:10:21 PM PST by
supercat
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