What should I whine about? How about NOT letting the system work. Like 2000 when the FL Elections Supervisor, Katherine Harris, also served as the FL Bush Campaign Chair. That seems like it ought to be illegal !! So sure I'll whine.
Harris blew thousands of people off the voter rolls because they shared the same name as a former felon, or same birthdate, or just plain same surname. 85,000 voters were "scrubbed" from the voter rolls without notification, then turned away at the polls. Yep, I'll whine.
That list of 58,000 voters turned out to be 95% incorrect... 55,100 votes denied to eligible voters with no recourse... I'll whine!
Gore "lost" by 587 votes when the Supremes halted a recount. The error rate for the FL system turned out to be 15%... a total of 8,500 votes in error one way or another (Dem --> Rep or Rep --> Dem) but 587 wins the race! Still sound like a "working system" ??
93,000 votes for Nader... no problem. 58,000 people unfairly prevented from voting... THAT is a problem to whine about. AND FIX!
How do we fix it? Hold Kathrine, the Sec. of State, Election Supervisor, and Bush Campaign Director accountable? That sounds reasonable to me....
... Bolstering her campaiign for Congresswomen in the 2002 race after winning the race for Bush? Yep... More to whine about if you can't get anyone to actually FIX the problem.
I'm just advocating letting the electoral system work... as it's written...
and hope those electors who can legally vote Kerry,
even if they were chosen to vote for Bush, will come to their senses (that
part is my opinion... the rest above is verified fact!) and cast a fair
vote without feeling pressured to vote either way by force of money, power,
or losing their respective positions. After all, the electors ARE
Voters in the USA... a Free Country where "every vote counts."
That's not a whine, Stuntman... That's a request to let the law work as
it was intended. Can we lobby... sure. Can we coerce or threaten...
No!! (Even though those undecided ones have been threatened here in this
great country if they vote "the wrong way.")
Best regards,
Tod
Stuntman wrote:
You mean they didn't count your vote?snip
BTW Last selection (2000), people whined that Gore should have won with
the ~500,000 popular vote margin and that a conspiracy stole the
election in Florida.
Now we have a clear winner by both Popular vote and Electoral college
vote and I'm hearing the same old whine.http://www.brookesnews.com/040811bushwin.html
It is over, now we have a President with no reason to bend to any
political whim because neither he nor the VP will be running next time.
So lets band together, write your Senator to get S. 1394 (the Money
Follows the Person Act) passed and submitted to the President.
If we see any hesitation by any member, (I for one will try to catch
the vote on C-Span) we can launch an e-mail program to every person in
their State if we have too. This is one Bill that will effect almost
everyone who lives long enough.
Let's quit the whinning and do something.
If you haven't contacted your Senator yet, DO IT!
S. 1394
Do it now.Stuntman
> Mark,
>
> I agree... Bush did not win by 3 million votes in the US, he won by
> 130,000 votes (less than my city population) in Ohio.
>
> I'm tired of my vote not counting... It really doesn't if I live in
> Arizona and keep hearing "Ohio will decide this election," or Florida,
> or Pennsylvania, or New Hampshire, or Iowa. Why shouldn't my vote
> really help "decide" an election? Why did 537 FL votes decide it in
> 2000 when the "error" rate will always be much higher than 537 votes
