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[email protected] (Eugene Holman) wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:00:06 +0200,
>> [email protected] (Eugene Holman) wrote:
>>
>> >In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> <deletions>
>
>> >> The reality is Affirmative Action has placed many
>> >> people in positions that they are not the best
>> >> qualified for. Why? It is race based and not merit
>> >> based.
>> >
>> >How do you account for George W. Bush being the
>> >president? What merits other than having a father who
>> >went to Yale and a brother as the governor of swing-
>> >state Florida justify his position ?
>>
>> He won the votes of the electoral college. It is the
>> system we use in this country.
>
> GWB won only after a divided Supreme Court decided that
> further vote counting and recounting in Florida was
> futile, despite the fact that the work was not complete by
> normal standards,
WRONG.
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Florida election laws:
http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0102/SEC112.HTM&Title=-
> 2003->Ch0102->Section%20112
(2) Returns must be filed by 5 p.m. on the 7th day
following a primary election and by 5 p.m. on the 11th
day following the general election.
(3) If the returns are not received by the department by
the time specified, such returns shall be *ignored* and
the results on file at that time shall be certified by
the department.
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US Supreme Court Decision:
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http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html
"On November 8, 2000, the day following the Presidential
election, the Florida Division of Elections reported that
petitioner, Governor Bush, had received 2,909,135 votes,
and respondent, Vice President Gore, had received 2,907,351
votes, a margin of 1,784 for Governor Bush. Because
Governor Bush’s margin of victory was less than “one-half
of a percent .
. . of the votes cast,” an automatic machine recount was
conducted under §102.141(4) of the election code, the
results of which showed Governor Bush still winning the
race but by a diminished margin. Vice President Gore then
sought manual recounts in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward,
and Miami-Dade Counties, pursuant to Florida’s election
protest provisions. Fla. Stat. §102.166 (2000). A dispute
arose concerning the *deadline* for local county
canvassing boards to submit their returns to the
Secretary of State (Secretary). The Secretary declined to
waive the November 14 deadline *imposed by statute*.
§§102.111, 102.112. The *Florida Supreme Court*, however,
*set the deadline* at November 26. We granted certiorari
and vacated the Florida Supreme Court’s decision, finding
considerable uncertainty as to the grounds on which it
was based."
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> and Al Gore decided in the name of national unity not to
> make a stink about the decision.
trying to steal the election.
Read the Florida election statutes I posted above. GORE was
the one who cried to the Florida Courts to circumvent the
law. READ IT! (Did you understand it?)
> Although the presidential election in the US is indeed
> determined by the electoral vote, it still seems strange
> that a person can win by having a half a million people
> *fewer* vote for him than voted for the loser. This was
> pointed out by recently re-elected Russian president
> Putin, who says that a country where such a thing can
> happen has no business pontificating about the
> idiosyncracies of Russian electoral practices.
How do you know that Gore won the total vote fair and
square?
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id-
=110002530
"The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee has just filmed Democratic
campaign workers handing out small amounts of money and free
food to residents at a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha
after which the patients were shepherded into a separate
room and given absentee ballots. One of the Democratic Party
workers fled when she saw the NBC camera."
"...the NBC footage showed Democratic workers engaged in
"manipulative" behavior with a group that was "clearly
developmentally disabled." The center ordered absentee
ballots on behalf of all the residents and then allowed
Democratic workers to run a bingo game there. The residents
were induced to vote with free refreshments and quarters as
bingo prizes."
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http://www.jsonline.com/election2000/nov00/recount231-
12200a.asp
Those claims included allegations that scores of
Marquette University students had voted more than once
and that Gore backers bribed homeless men with cigarettes
to vote for Gore.
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Looks like Democrats were cheating like crazy.
>
> But that's not the point. What qualifications does GWB
> bring to the presidency other than being the lackluster
> son of a former, not particularly successful president?
He was governor of one of the largest states in the
country, Eugene.
Not just governor of a hick state like Arkansas--which, by
the way, had the worst educational system of all 50 states
at the Clinton was elected.
Who's yer daddy, boy?!
King of SCAA
news:[email protected]:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:00:06 +0200,
>> [email protected] (Eugene Holman) wrote:
>>
>> >In article <[email protected]>,
> [email protected] wrote:
>
> <deletions>
>
>> >> The reality is Affirmative Action has placed many
>> >> people in positions that they are not the best
>> >> qualified for. Why? It is race based and not merit
>> >> based.
>> >
>> >How do you account for George W. Bush being the
>> >president? What merits other than having a father who
>> >went to Yale and a brother as the governor of swing-
>> >state Florida justify his position ?
>>
>> He won the votes of the electoral college. It is the
>> system we use in this country.
>
> GWB won only after a divided Supreme Court decided that
> further vote counting and recounting in Florida was
> futile, despite the fact that the work was not complete by
> normal standards,
WRONG.
------------------------------------------------------------
--
Florida election laws:
http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0102/SEC112.HTM&Title=-
> 2003->Ch0102->Section%20112
(2) Returns must be filed by 5 p.m. on the 7th day
following a primary election and by 5 p.m. on the 11th
day following the general election.
(3) If the returns are not received by the department by
the time specified, such returns shall be *ignored* and
the results on file at that time shall be certified by
the department.
----------------------------------------------------------
US Supreme Court Decision:
----------------------------------------------------------
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html
"On November 8, 2000, the day following the Presidential
election, the Florida Division of Elections reported that
petitioner, Governor Bush, had received 2,909,135 votes,
and respondent, Vice President Gore, had received 2,907,351
votes, a margin of 1,784 for Governor Bush. Because
Governor Bush’s margin of victory was less than “one-half
of a percent .
. . of the votes cast,” an automatic machine recount was
conducted under §102.141(4) of the election code, the
results of which showed Governor Bush still winning the
race but by a diminished margin. Vice President Gore then
sought manual recounts in Volusia, Palm Beach, Broward,
and Miami-Dade Counties, pursuant to Florida’s election
protest provisions. Fla. Stat. §102.166 (2000). A dispute
arose concerning the *deadline* for local county
canvassing boards to submit their returns to the
Secretary of State (Secretary). The Secretary declined to
waive the November 14 deadline *imposed by statute*.
§§102.111, 102.112. The *Florida Supreme Court*, however,
*set the deadline* at November 26. We granted certiorari
and vacated the Florida Supreme Court’s decision, finding
considerable uncertainty as to the grounds on which it
was based."
-----------------------------------------------------------
> and Al Gore decided in the name of national unity not to
> make a stink about the decision.
trying to steal the election.
Read the Florida election statutes I posted above. GORE was
the one who cried to the Florida Courts to circumvent the
law. READ IT! (Did you understand it?)
> Although the presidential election in the US is indeed
> determined by the electoral vote, it still seems strange
> that a person can win by having a half a million people
> *fewer* vote for him than voted for the loser. This was
> pointed out by recently re-elected Russian president
> Putin, who says that a country where such a thing can
> happen has no business pontificating about the
> idiosyncracies of Russian electoral practices.
How do you know that Gore won the total vote fair and
square?
------------------------------------------------------------
---
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id-
=110002530
"The NBC affiliate in Milwaukee has just filmed Democratic
campaign workers handing out small amounts of money and free
food to residents at a home for the mentally ill in Kenosha
after which the patients were shepherded into a separate
room and given absentee ballots. One of the Democratic Party
workers fled when she saw the NBC camera."
"...the NBC footage showed Democratic workers engaged in
"manipulative" behavior with a group that was "clearly
developmentally disabled." The center ordered absentee
ballots on behalf of all the residents and then allowed
Democratic workers to run a bingo game there. The residents
were induced to vote with free refreshments and quarters as
bingo prizes."
------------------------------------------------------
----------
------------------------------------------------------
----------
http://www.jsonline.com/election2000/nov00/recount231-
12200a.asp
Those claims included allegations that scores of
Marquette University students had voted more than once
and that Gore backers bribed homeless men with cigarettes
to vote for Gore.
------------------------------------------------------
----------
Looks like Democrats were cheating like crazy.
>
> But that's not the point. What qualifications does GWB
> bring to the presidency other than being the lackluster
> son of a former, not particularly successful president?
He was governor of one of the largest states in the
country, Eugene.
Not just governor of a hick state like Arkansas--which, by
the way, had the worst educational system of all 50 states
at the Clinton was elected.
Who's yer daddy, boy?!
King of SCAA