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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
The issue with some folks in the US are that citizen's votes were NOT counted at all in Florida in 2000. I am not talking about the messed up voting cards where 2 persons were selected for president or the undercounted cards where there was no one selected for president. I am talking about properly casted ballots that were not even counted in the 2000 Florida election.
Reminiscient of the old days of votes falling off the turnip truck...
Either way, I think this year, everybody is gonna vote in this coming election. Which makes this interesting to see international observers... I have my conspiracy theories brewing in my head about this fact, but I will see what happens as things unfold and develop...
However, I do agree with William Safire's assessment of the upcoming election for president, from the "Meet the Press" interview, that this election will not be a close election it will go one way, all the way and most likely for Bush...
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If one can't understand the ballot to vote (you know, the part where it says "check here to vote for X" or they just speed through it and don't really read the instructions, I don't think they're taking their duty seriously and really shouldn't be counted.
Conspiracy theories are just that THEORIES. If they were facts, they'd be called something else. To this day, there are no *confirmed* stories of irregularities in Florida. Just a movement of misinformation that tries to convince folks that Al Gore should have been the President.
Regardless of what you think about the outcome, the wheels of democracy turned and the law prevailed over everything else. Power changed hands peacefully which is something we take for granted here in the US.