What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Is the US election going to be close enough for a horribly familiar explosion of legal squabbling to decide the outcome again?
Florida:
"In Broward, long delays and massive confusion marred the start of early voting as the remote system at nine polling sites collapsed, making it impossible to electronically confirm voters' eligibility." – Seattle Times. (full story)
"A federal judge in Miami meanwhile started to hear a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO regarding as many as 10,000 other instances around the state where voter registrations had been rejected because of missing Florida driver license numbers, Social Security numbers or because residents did not check off a box that they are not convicted felons." – Sun Sentinel. (full story)
New Hampshire:
"Employees at the clerk's office chatted with each other about the rampant voter fraud among students and about how the state attorney general might have to intervene." – Boston Globe. (full story)
Colorado:
"There is an initiative on the ballot that would divide the state's electoral votes between the candidates according to the percentage of the vote that each candidate gets…Unfortunately, the writers of the initiative made it retroactive so that it would apply to the current election cycle. This opens it up to a legal challenge. " – Seattle Times. (full story)
Mother of hell. But all the journalists in the world all shouting at once won't be able to stop these legal quagmires from screwing with the result, short of Dick Cheney himself being photographed whipping some young democrat voter to death on the steps of the polling booths. Any hope of being allowed to unearth the unpleasant truths behind the foul unreality was crushed in 2000 when Florida was ordered by the Supreme Court to abandon its manual recount, and to hell with democracy – perhaps a fitting way of announcing to the world what the next four…or eight…years would be like under Bush.
Florida:
"In Broward, long delays and massive confusion marred the start of early voting as the remote system at nine polling sites collapsed, making it impossible to electronically confirm voters' eligibility." – Seattle Times. (full story)
"A federal judge in Miami meanwhile started to hear a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO regarding as many as 10,000 other instances around the state where voter registrations had been rejected because of missing Florida driver license numbers, Social Security numbers or because residents did not check off a box that they are not convicted felons." – Sun Sentinel. (full story)
New Hampshire:
"Employees at the clerk's office chatted with each other about the rampant voter fraud among students and about how the state attorney general might have to intervene." – Boston Globe. (full story)
Colorado:
"There is an initiative on the ballot that would divide the state's electoral votes between the candidates according to the percentage of the vote that each candidate gets…Unfortunately, the writers of the initiative made it retroactive so that it would apply to the current election cycle. This opens it up to a legal challenge. " – Seattle Times. (full story)
Mother of hell. But all the journalists in the world all shouting at once won't be able to stop these legal quagmires from screwing with the result, short of Dick Cheney himself being photographed whipping some young democrat voter to death on the steps of the polling booths. Any hope of being allowed to unearth the unpleasant truths behind the foul unreality was crushed in 2000 when Florida was ordered by the Supreme Court to abandon its manual recount, and to hell with democracy – perhaps a fitting way of announcing to the world what the next four…or eight…years would be like under Bush.
posted by Jamie at 10:48 AM
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