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From: amilabs at optonline.net (amilabs)
Subject: University Researchers Challenge Bush Win In
Florida
Give it up folks we are looking at the second quarter of a 16 year
republitard bush dynasty.
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[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com] On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 2:07 PM
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: Gregory Gilliss; full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com; Jason Coombs
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] University Researchers Challenge Bush Win In
Florida
--On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 01:28:07 PM -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
wrote:
>
> So when Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, appoints a State Commissioner
> of Elections, and drops a hint or two, there's NO way for said
> Commissioner to make sure that things happen the way Jeb's brother
> wants them to happen?
>
Did you not watch the mess in 2000? The *counties* decided how their ballot
would be constructed and how the elections would be run. Now how is Jeb
Bush and/or his Commissioner going to influence *Democratic* counties run by
*Democrats*?
Simple answer is, he *isn't*.
> Simply issuing an edict that candidates shall be listed alphabetically
> (and leaving the rest to the slight "first candidate listed" bias)
> would suffice unless the Democrats fielded somebody who's name started
> with 'A'....
>
Except that state law *explicitly* places that responsibility in the hands
of the county election board for *that very reason*.
> Might want to study up a bit - political machines from Boss Tweed to
> Richard Daley have had absolutely *no* problems in getting the ballot
> to go the way they wanted....
Yes, *before* electronic balloting.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@...allas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu
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