posted on November 26, 2000 08:44:09 AM new
http://www.campaignwatch.org/refs5.htm#la112100
http://www.campaignwatch.org/
The election supervisor in Seminole County, Sandra Gourd, goes on trial next week in Florida circuit court for inviting GOP workers to fill in 4,700 incomplete GOP absentee ballot requests1 while rejecting incomplete Democratic absentee ballot requests.2 A similar absentee ballot fraud case in 1997 resulted in the ouster of Miami Mayor Xavier Saurez,3 who admitted this month handling GOP absentee ballot forms in the 2000 election.
posted on November 26, 2000 11:06:04 AM new
At this stage of the game I don't think accusations of voting fraud is news worthy anymore. Soon the major news services will decide not to cover allegations of voter fraud unless firearms and deaths are involved (with graphic footage). As this 'election' continues there is another danger that the US might be facing, a shortage of lawyers in the other 49 states.
posted on November 26, 2000 01:58:25 PM new
I suspect that in the final accounting, these incidents of vote fraud, election tampering,, riots organized by Republicans, etc. will be swept under the carpet or altogether dismissed, in part because George Bush will "win" in the end and the Republicans will be more powerful than ever, and because Americans in general will be grateful that the whole mess has finally been decided and won't want to hear any more of it. As a people, we have a limited attention span when it comes to unpleasant things. We'll watch at first, eyes glued to the TV, but only to a point. Maybe we simply become bored and want to move on to something else. Or maybe our tolerance for the unsightly has a threshold that once met, rejects any further input. Take the post-impeachment attempts to prosecute Linda Tripp. Nobody wanted to hear about it. "Zippergate" had been resolved by the impeachment, it was over, and few cared that phone recordings which had contributed to the whole mess were illegally acquired. I honestly think people just get sick of everything, and reach a point where they don't want to hear anymore.
In another thread -- I think the "Bushie Brownshirts" -- krs pointed out that Gore said he wanted all investigation of election wrongdoings held off until after the election was over. That was a major miscalculation on Gore's part, because once it's over, few will care or pay attention. The "intensity" of the situation witnessed during the last week or so will be gone. It'll be the "morning after" and folks will want to shake the hangover ASAP.
posted on November 26, 2000 04:02:04 PM new
Yes and no. Remember that Nixon's resignation was forced nearly a year after his election by the Watergate disclosures of the practices which took place that partially enabled his election.
Though Gore did say that the focus of his campaign should not be on the arising questioning of the republican practices in Florida, I think he must have been following the policy of the justice department not to investigate such matters during an ongoing election. Such investigations would taint any outcome.
I don't think, though, that anyone can doubt that the media is playing this for every last commercial break, and though there attention is currently focused on the psuedo outcome today, they'll move tomorrow to the court battles and then to the investigations, if any, once those are decided. So like zippergate, they'll milk it until dry whether the public likes it or not. At least they will until OJ commits another murder.
