RE: University Researchers Challenge Bush Win In Florida

[amilabs <amilabs () optonline net>]

Give it up folks we are looking at the second quarter of a 16 year
republitard bush dynasty. 

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Florida

--On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 01:28:07 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
wrote:
> So when Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, appoints a State Commissioner 
> of Elections, and drops a hint or two, there's NO way for said 
> Commissioner to make sure that things happen the way Jeb's brother 
> wants them to happen?
Did you not watch the mess in 2000?  The *counties* decided how their ballot
would be constructed and how the elections would be run.  Now how is Jeb
Bush and/or his Commissioner going to influence *Democratic* counties run by
*Democrats*?

Simple answer is, he *isn't*.

> Simply issuing an edict that candidates shall be listed alphabetically 
> (and leaving the rest to the slight "first candidate listed" bias) 
> would suffice unless the Democrats fielded somebody who's name started 
> with 'A'....
Except that state law *explicitly* places that responsibility in the hands
of the county election board for *that very reason*.

> Might want to study up a bit - political machines from Boss Tweed to 
> Richard Daley have had absolutely *no* problems in getting the ballot 
> to go the way they wanted....

Yes, *before* electronic balloting.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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