Election Analysis by the Washington Post

[Laurel]

This is one of the most interesting bits of info from the article:

Matthew Hendrickson, a sailor aboard the cruiser USS Ticonderoga, mailed his overseas absentee ballot from Puerto Rico on Nov. 13, six days after the Election Day deadline. He knew the presidential race was undecided and he wanted Bush to win. Records show that Duval County included his vote in its results.

"I dropped it off at the mailbox," Hendrickson said in an interview. "I was just seeing if it would count or not."

There's a lot more good reading here:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3698-2001May31.html

 

[Siren]

Wow that is just plain wrong

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Wow that is just plain wrong

...anyway you look at it, you have to agree that is wrong.

That is not the way it should work for either side.

Makes me sad for the process and even sadder for this country....

What all this means of course is that no one is going to give a flying fuck what the USA thinks the next time it criticises someone else's election.

You've not only lost your integrity over this sorry affair, you've lost your credibility.

Pity.

 

[Starfish]

Damn Right it's wrong!

If that had happened in Gore's favor...It would still be wrong.

 

[Siren]

That is exactly what I mean GR, either way it is wrong.

 

[lavender]

 

[p_p_man]

Yep...

Damn Right it's wrong!

If that had happened in Gore's favor...It would still be wrong.

That incident goes beyond politics. Who knows who let that vote (and maybe others) slip through.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

first p_p_man,
there is no express evidence that the world community respects us.

We should just buy out your island, pave it, and use it for an aircraft carrier . Everybody is so jealous, U.S., is so very hot, so very horney.

And Laurel

What about the 6,000 felons that voted for your side in Florida, but hell rules don't count all that much when you're doing the right, whoops!, correct thing? Dems are all Machiavellians and its a damn shame that the Reps are confucianists.

Don't the English hold elections when they guy in power thinks he can win?

There's a respectable system emplyed by Stalin and Hitler too at various times if I recall correctly.

BITE ME 0)

 

[p_p_man]

Aww Gee A_J...

first p_p_man,

We should just buy out your island, pave it, and use it for an aircraft carrier .

...LOL. Good idea but I don't think you can afford us any more. Face it A_J the good old days for you are just that - the good old days. You'll have to wait for a change of political thinking in Washington before anyone is going to take the US seriously again.

 

[WriterDom]

I would find it more objective and informative to read an article in the Beijing Daily about human rights in China than any liberal biased crap the Washington Post prints about politics.

 

[p_p_man]

Problem is...

...China doesn't really pretend to have any human rights just yet.

 

[Ally C]

Washington*

 

[Ally C]

*The above post is what is known as a "Washington Post".

 

[Mischka]

Groan...

 

[Ally C]

Just thank your lucky stars that I didn't fill a page with lots of hours and minutes, and then add a post called "The Times" ...


***BIGGER GROAN***

 

[Oliver Clozoff]

Wait, Laurel... I thought you said you wanted Bush to win.

 

[Guest]

You're right ....

that WAS so very wrong ... BUT it's still the closest thing to right ... and it won't be done again with the media attention received this time 'round.

Our democracy isn't perfect ... but we learn ... and improve as we go along.

Who knows? Maybe during the next presidential election Florida will have a new governor to keep things honest?

 

[unusuallyconfused]

I heard one girl in California boasted to a person I spoke with that she filled out several absentee ballots for various members of her family, voted for Gore, and sent them in. I see I am not the only one who is becoming disenchanted with the whole political process. The problem is there is no place better. Everywhere is corrupt. It depresses me because there is such a spirit of complacency in this country and I don't see that it is going to get any better.

Thats why I don't like the political discussions. Its all too negative and corrupt.

I remember thinking that the President or a Politician would serve the people and would do that without a selfish end. I remember reading a quote that said "Any one can be president and now I believe it"

 

[Guest]

However...

It's that kind of apathy that allows politicians to be tainted.

If the majority of Americans exercised their right to vote, then the politicians would have to perform up to the expected standards.

To throw your hands up in the air and say, "Arrrgghhhh!" rather than getting out to the polls, only worsens the abuse.