From the Florida Dems
Last week, a State House panel voted on party lines to reject common sense legislation to require a paper trail for Florida elections with Republicans voting against. Republican Dennis Baxley, a staunch opponent of fair elections, lashed out in response to criticism: "The fact is some people just don't like the outcome of elections so they question the integrity of the system."
Even Republican Governor Charlie Crist (who we're pretty sure liked the outcome of the 2006 election) is on our side because a verifiable paper trail just makes sense. We have to restore the people's confidence in elections, and that means requiring a paper trail.
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posted by kate @ 6:41 PM
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Im in favor of the paper trail, but simply to shut the whiners up. It seems when democrats lose close, they take it to court so often, I just want to keep them quiet.
So whether we add a paper trail to the electronic machines, and giving a printout to the voter to drop into a box in case of a recount, or the optical scan machines. Either way is fine, we just need to stop all this ridiculous conspiracy theory crap, so someday the democrats will accept a narrow loss.
speaking of taking elections to court, let's not forget which court took the public out of the process in a presidential election.
not crying over spilt milk, (despite the stench), but let's remember so it cannot happen again.
cheswick, the supreme court in 2000 simply told the FL supreme court that they HAVE to follow the florida state laws when it comes to recounts.
The FL supreme court activists decided that the state law didnt matter, and decided (incorrectly) that the florida democrats could simply recount only the areas that they felt necessary, when the law specifically states, that when a recount is taking place, or further hand recount and analysis, it MUST be statewide, not just in certain areas.
The supreme court thus told them to follow their laws, and then instead of recounting the whole state, including the 25,000 ballots from overseas military that Gore's lawyers had disqualified based on technicalities, (knowing that the military votes republican 70-30) the Gore camp decided to concede the election.
There were shady actions on both sides, but you cant for one minute claim that the election was clearly stolen. Hanging chads that NBC reporters were physically looking at, and out of 10,000 they say, they could only make out about 100. Plus NBC called FLorida for gore before the heavily republican panhandle polls closed, causing tens of thousands not to go to the polls in the last 45 minutes.
Non-partisan best estimates show that if the military ballots gore had disqualified were counted, the chads were counted, and the panhandle voted, Bush would have won by about 20,000 votes.
There, that should stir some comments. :)
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