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Presidential-Election Vote-Counting
by Jim Wrenn, Editor
(November 11, 2000) Furthermore
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Listening to James Baker's news conference this morning
(11-11-00 at approximately 10:30 am EST) explaining why the Bush Campaign filed
suit in federal court seeking to enjoin commencement of a third recount of the
votes in certain highly-Democratic counties in Florida using a manual-recount
method motivated me to write this editorial.
Not only am I tired of the whining adults in south Florida claiming they were
misled into incorrectly marking their choices on ballots easily understood by
grammar-schoolers, but I deeply resent the Gore Campaign's ongoing attempt to
require that special attention and help be given to voters who incompetently
marked their ballots while all other voters in the country are stuck with
whatever action they took when they marked their ballots. To give such
special attention to selected, careless voters in a nationwide election violates the very
notions of due process and equal protection of the law for which our
Constitution stands. If the Gore Campaign (or others unhappy with
the recount) were to continue demanding such special treatment for careless
voters, and if the federal court were to decline the Bush campaign's request for
an injunction against such special treatment, then I, and other voters who
competently marked our ballots, must give prompt, serious consideration to
filing a nationwide class action on behalf of all voters believing they
accurately completed their ballots to seek a nationwide federal injunction
against this nonsense, which, unchecked, would seriously and permanently
undermine our electoral process and the political stability of our
Constitutional republic.
Jim Wrenn.
P.S. Other competent voters sharing this view may contact my law-office at
www.wrennlaw.com, and I will try to assist
them in locating counsel ready, willing, able and competent to institute such
nationwide class action.
Furthermore...
(11-13-00) Just as Clinton was willing to undermine the Presidency to save
himself, Gore is apparently willing to undermine the stability, even-handedness
and finality of our presidential-election process to serve himself rather than
his country. Just as Clinton lacked enough shame to resign as did
Nixon, Gore lacks enough honor to put the country's need for electoral
stability, even-handedness and finality ahead of his own interest as did Nixon
in 1960 when he declined to assert serious evidence that voting fraud illegally
gave the election to Kennedy.
For the process unleashed by Gore following the first re-count (i.e., demanding
subjective, visual interpretation of marks on punch cards designed to be read by
machines calibrated to produce a lower rate of human error than subjective human
analysis) to succeed, it will permanently undermine the stability of our
presidential-election process. In the future, all campaigns will
automatically file requests for recounts; then they'll launch a public-relations
campaign to encourage their supporters (and/or plants among them) to claim their
votes weren't properly counted; then they'll launch a massive public-relations
campaign to convince the public that "the system" somehow
"disenfranchised" their supporters as grounds for overturning
the normal vote-counting process. We'll have to start holding Presidential
Elections several years in advance to allow adequate time for all the inevitable
litigation to wind its way through the courts. Thanks, Al. Jim Wrenn, Editor.
11-13-00.
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