[UA] Your country, it scares me.

[Bailey Watts]

>     Actually, as a political fanboy, it's been pretty interesting, if only
>because there *are* new things to report.  We've got two former Secretaries
>of State going to Florida to oversee the recount, every hour there's a new
>revelation about another set of ballots that were so badly designed that
>instead of voting for the moderate left-winger, they voted for a
>no-chance-in-hell rabid nationalist by accident (turns out this problem was
>pretty widespread), and more and more *piles* of missing votes turning up.
>The hair's-breadth lead that Bush was enjoying has been whittled down to
>about half a hair's breadth by the recount *already* and they're still 
>going
>to be counting tomorrow.  Plus there's the chance of a lawsuit being filed
>by the Gore camp over those screwy ballots.
>
>     This is history-making in so many ways, and I'm sure some cliomancer 
>is
>trying to find out exactly where the ballot will be counted that finally
>decides this election.

Don't forget the phone calls people received stating they needed a photo ID 
in addition to their voter registration card (any valid state id like a 
social security card is acceptable by law) or face misdemeanor charges.

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