Election Fraud?

[Patrick Garrett]

Sdogg11 at aol.com wrote:

> This may be a very coherent argument, but one must realize that if they don't
> take the time to do the research or sit down for 10 minutes on a Wednesday
> evening like my family did, they really shouldn't be complaining.  It's not
> as if they didn't have the opportunity to truly make a difference.  The
> argument that the government should be doing everything possible to make it
> easy is a weak one...As a nation we need to start being responsible for our
> actions rather than expecting the half-assed government to be our scapegoat.

But where is the line between personnal responsibility and governmental
responsibility? Your assuming that everyone neglected to go to a poll supervisor
and ask for a new ballot (before submitting one), and that is flat wrong as there
have been interviews of voters who state that they were denied a new clean ballot.

Equal protection requires that the government provide multi-langauge ballots and
access to officials who can speak a voters langauge to answer questions. I don't
think it is unreasonable to ask that the government follow the law, and provide
new ballots...do you??? My argument is not that their should be a revote based on
the fact that allot of people voted incorrectly and never told anyone until after
the ballot was submitted, but the fact that the system discourages requests for
new ballots, and discourages questions of polling officials in general is what
requires (in my mind) a serious reconsideration of the revoting issue.


> I suppose if they wanted to make it real easy, we could just have a
> dictatorship.  Then no one would have to actually think.  But then again,
> they don't anyway, evident in the negligence exuded by millions of voters who
> do not do their research pre-election day.

The whole argument about self-responsibility is just another way of saying, "Screw
you, your on your own, and I don't give a damn about what happens to you." This
tough love crap that Bush keeps babbling about is just a more polite way of saying
that...

I fully recognize that the re-vote issue is getting out of hand, and is in many
ways unworkable, but to sit there and say you don't care, or for W. to say such a
thing casts serious doubt in my mind that W. or the GOP is the Party of Lincoln
and not the Party for Themselves
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Patrick Garrett
Intern
Federation of American Scientists
307 Massachusetts Avenue, NE
Washington, DC  20002
http://www.fas.org
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