Counting Ballots for Dummies
There's alot in this article that makes me want to scream.
1. I'm tired of ballots getting screwed up. Seems that Washington State put some ballots in the wrong pile. And why are all these errors occuring in Dem areas? Florida, Ohio and now Washington. And don't try blaming the GOP, most times it's Democrats that control the process.
2. I'm tired of political parties running to the courts. Damn it, follow the rules and live with the results.
3. Mainly though, I have a gut problem with any party trying to keep votes from being counted. The GOP should back off on this one. Maybe legality is on their side; but morally, it should be on the side of the individual voter.
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Despite the temporary restraining order, I'm not sure we can say that legality is on the side of the GOP in this case. Typically Supreme Courts won't take cases that are deemed to not have merit. And the Washington SC has agreed to hear this appeal.
Dems may control the process in many counties. But, clearly the GOP controls the majority of the machines and programs that count votes. And from what I've been seeing, the much more significant problems found in Ohio and Florida have more to do with that end of the system. And let's not forget the deliberate schemes to prevent or limit the ability of voters in predominantly Dem areas from even casting a vote in the first place.
It seems, to me, that most controversies we hear about occur at the county level. If I'm wrong let me know.
Of course they are at the county level. If you were to set out to mess with a national election in this country, where better to do it but at the county level and then use the state level to obfuscate any attempts to redress the injustice? That's exactly what we're seeing and have seen... particularly in Florida.
That doesn't necessarily mean that the King County thing was deliberate. But it does appear to fit a pattern. And as you noted, the morality and ethics of trying to disenfranchise legal votes is very iffy at best.
Ask yourself this: If the GOP doesn't have a problem wiht the ethics/morality of trying to deny legal votes *after* an election... why would they have a problem rigging the system *before* an election?
It does appear to me that the overwhelming majority of alleged fraud and disenfranchisement of legal votes across the entire nation this year benefitted the GOP. Coincidence? I have a very hard time believing that it is.
The only thing I would add is that it seems easier to monkey with the results in a county that the party controls.
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