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...on (Presidential) Election Day in the United States, we do not hold a national election - each state conducts it's own election for a slate of representatives (electors). So we have instead 50 (more when you count Puerto Rico and other US protectorates) distinct and separate elections conducted by each state governed by state law in each instance. In Florida, each county (Under the purview of the County Supervisor of Elections) conducts it's own separate election and reports the results to the State who in turn reports the results to the Congress via it's slate of electors. It could be argued that we do not have a national election at all; but thousands of separate elections conducted in every county, parish, and province across this great nation.

Why is that in the months following the Florida elections (November 2000) we have County Election Supervisors from 3 Democratically controlled counties
near Tallahassee complain that Governor Jeb Bush vetoed a $100,000 request for a 'voter education campaign'? Could it be that any campaigned education offered up this past election season by the Democratic Party would likely be as unbiased as the MTV 'Rock the Vote' campaign and more likely be an education in how to vote for the Democratic Party candidates?

Witch-hunts, kangaroo courts and outcries against
confusing ballots are nothing more than a lure for the weak-minded. These ploys are a decoy to detour us from the real aim - of genuine voter fraud.

Voter Fraud does not begin when a politician decides to bribe his constituency with promises, goodies or 'pork'. Voter Fraud does not continue because special interest groups urge, beg, demand or force the 'party line'. Voter Fraud begins where most things begin - at home with the voter himself!

Voters who chose to vote for their own enrichment at the expense of their country (or at their neighbors expense) complete the cycle proffered by the iniquitous politician or special interest group boss. The power to end this corruption and fraud lies within the grasp of every voter, with their precious right to vote. For without a market to satisfy, pandering looters could offer no service that the honest and decent would take for themselves.

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... that entire hubbub in the Federal Civil-Rights Panel Investigation of the Florida Nov 2000 elections is the whole notion of VOTER RESPONSIBILITY! Much was made of the 'abandoning of local election supervisors'; Governor vetoed voter-education campaigns and confusing ballots and the 'voters had to pay the price'.

What price and at what cost to the voter? Which voter - the informed voter, the legal voter or their opposite?

Voters who participate in an entire election cycle -primaries runoffs and Presidential elections know at their first visit to the polls (during the party primary) if they are properly registered in their precinct. If there is a problem with their registration the voter should have ample time to correct it between the primary election and Presidential election time. It should be well argued that it is the voter's responsibility to ensure his or her own registration is in 'proper order' before journeying to the polls to cast a ballot. Furthermore, it is also the voter's responsibility to understand from whom and what he is casting his ballot!

What's to be made of the enfranchisement of the ill informed voter or the illegal voter - besides the obvious erosion of voter confidence and the undermining of the electoral process?

How can any republic sustain such an assault on the very source of it's existence - Power derived from the will of the people by having the will of the people subverted by conferring legitimate status on illegitimate ballots?

An illegitimate ballot is not (as some might think) an honest disagreement with a particular point of view (arrived at by careful consideration of the facts) or political frame of reference; but rather a swindle of the public trust and a fraud perpetrated on the governed by looters seeking criminal suppression of the legal will of the governed for their own illegitimate gain.

Gather round, you 'Monday Morning' Electioneers

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...Objects filtered through the 'rose-colored' prism of some glasses are not as clear as they appear.

Some 35+ days post the Year 2000 elections and a good deal is still being whispered about that darned 'Democrat Dreaded' Butterfly Ballot. As if someone has pulled the stake from this Dracula's heart to let it confuse again, much has been omitted and even fallaciously implied.

Most now know that a Democrat Supervisor of Elections designed the "ballot" for use by mostly Democrat voters in a Democrat controlled County. One can't image that the Supervisor of Elections would PERPETRATE ON PURPOSE a ballot so complex that citizens of ordinary sense would fail to render a legal vote.

While Palm Beach County has many Democrat sympathies, (and perhaps some voters there may have miscast their ballots), this same county also hosts a bastion of support for Patrick Buchanan. So much support in fact that in the 1996 Presidential Primary he garnered over 9000 votes in that same county. It should also be noted that his cousin (and a campaign chairman) also lives in this county. It should not be so hard to imagine that most of the 3400 ballots cast for Candidate Buchanan were actually intended for him.

While some still seek to demagogue this issue, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that the 'Democrat Dreaded' Butterfly Ballot was in fact a LEGAL ballot. Moreover, Candidate Buchanan earned most of the ballots cast for him and now citizens must now draw back the hammer yet again drive the stake into the heart of this Butterfly Ballot issue.

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