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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Jeff wrote:

> Show you that governments are inherently inept at listing.  However,
> Gore's bid for he White House is listing (for you Democrats that's:
> tilting as in boat talk).
> 
> Jeff

 Hey you guys, the Bush campaign is just really mobilized.  Please write
letters to your congressmen and representatives and let them know how
outraged you are by this usurpation and political maneuvering.  We need to
get together and protest and let them know we're not going to just go, oh,
 okay, you're President.  Each vote must be counted!!  This election must
be fair!!
  WOW, CHECK THIS OUT!  IT BLOWS THE MIND TO SEE IT ALL PUT THIS WAY

 From an article in which a Zimbabwe politician was quoted as saying that
children should study this event closely for it shows that election fraud
is not only a third world phenomenon...

 1. Imagine that we read of an election occuring anywhere in the third
world in which the self-declared winner was the son of the former  prime
minister and that former prime minister was himself the former head of
that nation's secret police (cia).

 2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote but won
based on some old colonial holdover (electoral college) from the nation's
pre-democracy past.

  3. Imagine that the self-declared winner's 'victory' turned on disputed
votes cast in a province governed by his brother!

  4. Imagine that the poorly drafted ballots of one district, a district
heavily favoring the self-declared winner's opponent, led thousands of
voters to vote for the wrong candidate.

 5. Imagine that members of that nation's most despised caste, fearing for
their lives/livelihoods, turned out in record numbers to vote in
near-universal opposition to the self-declared winner's candidacy.

 6. Imagine that hundreds of members of that most-despised caste were
intercepted on their way to the polls by state police operating under the
authority of the self-declared winner's brother.

 7. Imagine that six million people voted in the disputed province and
that the self-declared winner's 'lead' was only 327 votes. Fewer,
certainly, than the vote counting machines' margin of error.

 8. Imagine that the self-declared winner and his political party opposed
a more careful by-hand inspection and re-counting of the ballots in the
disputed province or in its most hotly disputed district.

  9. Imagine that the self-declared winner, himself a governor of a major
province, had the worst human rights record of any province in his nation
and actually led the nation in executions.

 10. Imagine that a major campaign promise of the self-declared winner was
to appoint like-minded human rights violators to lifetime positions on the
high court of that nation.

 None of us would deem such an election to be representative of anything
other than the self-declared winner's will-to-power. All of us, I imagine,
would wearily turn the page thinking that it was another sad tale of
pitiful pre- or anti-democracy peoples in some strange elsewhere."

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:34:26 -0600, Carol Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> >U.R. Rong said:
> >
> >"There are few of his kind, convicted or not, that are not felons...                                                                      
> >
> > Fla. paid for inaccurate felon lists
> > 
> > WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Florida's secretary of state spent $4
> > million to purge voting lists of felons this year, but the lists
> > were incorrect and caused mass confusion at county election offices.
> > About 12,000 people were listed as having felony convictions in
> > Texas and other states even though many had only been convicted of
> > misdemeanors. Others on the list, compiled by a Boca Raton company,
> > had had their voting rights reinstated. Still others were cases of
> > mistaken identity. In Leon County, the elections office received a
> > list of 694 suspected felons, who are ineligible to vote under state
> > law. Of those, Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho said the county
> > only confirmed 34 were actual felons. Sancho, chairman of the
> > state's voting list committee for the secretary of state, said the
> > lists compiled by Database Technologies are unreliable because they
> > depend on information from government agencies that may be outdated
> > and which the company fails to double check.
> > 
> >  Full article at: 
> > http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=405227281
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

Moving to sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America, the Los Angeles
City Council on November 27 decided to cut the youth group out of its
police Explorers program and to block troops from using city property for
free.  The council, in its 11-0 vote, also called on all city agencies to
review their relationship with the Scouts.  Councilman Mike Feuer said he
believes the city is legally obligated to sever its ties with the Boy Scouts.