Posted on 12/03/2007 3:46:37 AM PST by NCDragon
In the long, hot autumn of 2000, the world was shocked by the contempt for democracy shown by the Republican Party. They knew their man had lost the popular vote to Al Gore by half a million votes. They knew the majority of voters in Florida itself had pulled a lever for Gore. But they fought -- amid the confetti of hanging chads -- to stop the state's votes being counted, and to ensure that the Supreme Court imposed George W. Bush on the nation.
Today, that contempt for democracy is on display again. In California right now, there is a naked, out-in-the-open ploy to rig the 2008 presidential election -- and it may succeed.
To understand how this works, we have to roam back to the 18th century and learn about the odd anachronistic leftover they are trying to use now to thwart democracy. Back then, America's Founding Fathers decided not to introduce a system where U.S. presidents would be directly elected, with the votes totted up in Washington, D.C., and the winner being the man with the most. Instead, they chose a complex system called the Electoral College.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
And so it begins....
The Seattle Post’s nuts are up early today.
This idiot blew it in the first paragraph. Stop votes from being counted? How about stop votes from being manufactured out of thin air? How about Gore’s gaggle of lawyers trying to get every military absentee ballot thrown out? So he has a problem with the Republicans trying to alter the distribution of electoral votes in California. I wonder if he has a problem with the Dems doing the same thing in North Carolina and elsewhere?
About time our plot arrived... we were wondering what we would do next.
Where’s that “Ah Jeez... not again?” pic?
You’re right. I can’t believe any newspaper would print such garbage, even on the editorial page.
Mr. Hari has an interesting approach. He condemns the California approach, which if enacted nation-wide, would be a step toward a popular referendum that he seems to support. He then condemns the Electoral College approach established by the Founding Fathers.
Not to mention Gore only wanted recounts in one particular county,. He was against it for the whole state ( knowing that the panhandle would pull more votes for Bush )
“How about Gore’s gaggle of lawyers trying to get every military absentee ballot thrown out?”
Is my memory faulty in telling me that they did get thousands of them thrown out?
It’s almost funny.
D’s and R’s on this issue. Each party would love to have the votes in the states they lose but keep the votes in states they win.
D politicians here in NC would love to do that.
Jonathan Hari is too stupid and ignorant to be able to lie effectively. He only succeeds in displaying his complete loyalty to a discredited and completely corrupt and craven political zombie, the Democrat Party.
I wonder if this is the same Johann Hari that writes for the Independent here in the UK. It would explain a lot...
Of course what the Moonbat doesn’t want people to know is that in Florida multiple recounts were eventually done by right wing organizations such as “The NY Times” and they all found that GW won the popular vote in Florida. They also don’t say anything about the suppression factor, once CBS made the erroneous call in Florida, Republican voters in the central, mountain and pacific time zones, stayed home in droves, leading to Algore’s slight majority.
Someone should tell Mata Hari that Gore took it to court.
Where was she when democrats were sticking extras in states and DC?
Hari leaves out the fact that it was the Democrats (I believe in Colorado) who came up with this idea in order to help Kerry in the 2004 election.
I noticed that.
We should see what those who uphold the constitution have to say...
Nevermind...
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/2007/12/02/giuliani_1203.html
This one?
I’ll tell ya, 100 years from now they’ll still gripe over the 2000 election.
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