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To: Patriot28

This is news? The RATS will no longer recognize the will of the voters unless said will validates the RAT agenda. They only protect the "disenfranchised" in cases where voters are too stupid to distinguish between Algore and Pat Buchanan. Nothing new here, move along.


59 posted on 12/24/2006 5:00:37 AM PST by thelastvirgil (Lest ye put all your faith in the government to provide for you, check their track record.)
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To: thelastvirgil

In the 1984 election, Rep. McCloskey faced conservative state senator Rick McIntyre. Buoyed by President Reagan's strong coattails, McIntyre trailed McCloskey by only 72 votes after the initial vote count. A tabulation error, however, resulted in an overcounting of McCloskey votes and the Republican Indiana Secretary of State certified McIntyre as the winner by 34 votes, ignoring other recounted tallies that actually showed McCloskey was in the lead. The Democratic-controlled House refused to seat either McIntyre or McCloskey and conducted their own recount. In the end, the House seated McCloskey after declaring him the winner by just four votes (116,645 to 116,641). The vote was largely along partisan lines and in response every Republican House member marched out of the chamber in protest.


60 posted on 12/24/2006 6:26:55 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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