--On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 01:28:07 PM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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