[OT][UA] Your country, it scares me.

[Kevin Mowery]

    Some ballots were confusing, but in other places there were mechanical
problems.  Add into that the tales that have been escaping about campaign
workers insisting that if someone wanted a new ballot because they made a
mistake that they couldn't have one, tales of police harassing black voters
on their way to the polls . . . .

    Even Buchanan is now saying that Gore should have won.  (For our foreign
readers, Pat Buchanan is a right-wing nationalist whose platform this time
seemed to be mostly about keeping foreigners from ruining our country.)

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----- Original Message -----
From: <Twist0059 at aol.com>
To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [OT][UA] Your country, it scares me.


> In a message dated 11/9/00 9:48:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> yetiseti at hotmail.com writes:
>
> << >The ballots were incorrectly printed, and pulled after 700-1000 people
>  >(estimated) had misselected...a bit more substantial a problem than a
few
>  >stupid people.
>  >
>
>  Plus you have to realize the ballot was changed to accomodate the senior
>  demographics of that county.  It was thought that older people would be
able
>  to read it better with the larger print.  But if you've seen pictures of
the
>  ballot, the way it looked, in my opinion, makes it a helluva lot more
>  confusing. >>
>
>
> I'm still doubting they were actually misprinted.  All the news items I
saw
> on them showed simply the punch holes close together, with some murky
> instructions.
>
>
>
>
> -Twist
>
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