Re: Democrat FUD: "If our lead does not mount, you must re-count!"
At 1:04 PM -0800 11/11/00, Tim May wrote: >At 11:55 AM -0800 11/11/00, Tim May wrote: >> >>* Stage Four of the FUD Campaign, current: "We demand a manual recount. Two > >* Stage 4.5 of the FUD Campaign, Saturday afternoon: "It's the >chads, the little pieces of paper punched out but hanging by a >thread." (How appropriate: "hanging by a thread") The Democrats are >demanding that ballots marked as spoiled be checked to see if they >have "indentations" or "chads." > >Of course, how these indentations or chads have anything to do with >Democrats vs. Republicans is unclear... > >Except that the Democrat Party is requesting the recounts in heavily >Democrat precincts! * Stage 4.6 of the FUD Campaign, late Saturday afternoon: It was just revealed on Fox News that the northern Florida county with the 20,000 spoiled ballots is Duval County and that there WILL NOT BE A RECOUNT of the ballots because the 72-hour time limit for challenging the count has passed. (This was from the female director/whatever of the Elections Commission in Duval County, who said that the ballots could not be subject to the same kind of inspection being seen in the other counties to the south because the 72-hour time limit had just passed) In other words, the Democrats are getting a third count in heavily-Democrat counties because they hustled into town with their lawyers and filed at least 8 lawsuits and screamed and squawked that their peoples had been "discriminated against." Though they've changed the grounds for their complaints several times--see earlier FUD points--this "held the door open" for the manual scrutiny of the "chads" and "indentations" and "voter intent" we're now seeing in the precincts the Democrats are having re-re-counted. The Republicans, on the other hand, took the results as a done deal and thus have let the 72-hour deadline in Duval County (and other such counties, one presumes) pass. "You snooze, you lose." Ah, America. Where the true victors are lawyers. And where the Democrats will likely steal the election by getting "a third bite of the apple." Fucked up, yes. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
Re: Democrat FUD: "If our lead does not mount, you must re-count!"
At 11:55 AM -0800 11/11/00, Tim May wrote: > >* Stage Four of the FUD Campaign, current: "We demand a manual >recount. Two counts, the first one and then the state-mandated >machine recount, are not enough. We are certain that if certain >counties are counted again, and again, that the extra votes we need >will be found." > >[As Jesse Jackson and Johnnie Cockroach might singsong: "If our lead >does not mount, you must re-count!'] * Stage 4.5 of the FUD Campaign, Saturday afternoon: "It's the chads, the little pieces of paper punched out but hanging by a thread." (How appropriate: "hanging by a thread") The Democrats are demanding that ballots marked as spoiled be checked to see if they have "indentations" or "chads." Of course, how these indentations or chads have anything to do with Democrats vs. Republicans is unclear... Except that the Democrat Party is requesting the recounts in heavily Democrat precincts! They understand that by recounting, and recounting, and then switching to manual analysis of ballots IN DEMOCRAT-LEANING PRECINCTS they can probably pick up some additional votes for Gore. Simple statistics. The obvious point is that such additional vacuum-cleaning should not be allowed. And if it is allowed in a single precinct, absent some strong evidence that that precinct had precinct-specific "chad problems" with its machines, then ALL precincts should be counted in an identical fashion. A daunting, and expensive, and time-consuming process. A manual inspection of six million ballots will take several weeks. Which may be the Gore strategy, ironically. Get the process in Florida so bogged-down that Florida is left out of the Electoral College process on December 18th. According to many legal scholars, the election would then hinge on a majority of those who were at the EC meeting, even if Florida were to be absent. Advantage: Gore. Fucked up, yes. --Tim May -- -:-:-:-:-:-:-: Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
