I AM SURPRISED, in all honesty, that this is not linked in more places. In my opinion, people who believe in the Democratic process (and I'm not even sure how much I do, anymore, especially given events like this which seem to happen over and over) would be incensed that the Registrar in charge of Los Angeles County would acknowledge that 94,000 votes, thats NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND VOTES will not be counted. Votes that were cast. By humans! Who thought their will would factor into the Democratic process! Who the hell is this person to assert that their votes are meaningless?
Perhaps you remember the recent post I did on this voting trouble in Califas. Here's the follow-up.
In what the media is now calling "Double Bubble Trouble," 94,000 "Decline-to-State" votes in Los Angeles County -- 50% of the total DTS ballots cast -- are being rejected due to a ballot design flaw, despite the Courage Campaign's discovery of the "double bubble" problem and official notification to the Registrar prior to Election Day.
Last weekend, lawyers for the Courage Campaign uncovered the "double bubble" problem -- a shocking requirement that "Decline-to-State" voters fill in a redundant "Democratic" bubble (on a ballot clearly marked "Democratic Party") as well as a bubble next to their preferred presidential candidate. Our legal team realized that -- without the "Democratic" bubble filled in -- the county's optical scanners would void votes for "President of the United States," regardless of voter intent.
Unfortunately, Dean Logan, the Registrar in charge of Los Angeles County, is refusing to conduct a physical hand-count of every "Decline-to-State" vote before the official vote is certified in just a few weeks.
Dean Logan. Anti-American if I ever heard of one. Anti-Democracy Dean Logan. Anyway, the petition to have every vote counted is here. It requires minimal clickee-typee, and I don't know about you, but to me, ninety-four thousand disenfranchised voters represents a danger to our Democratic process and the future engagement of that process, as well as insures that a shadow of illegitimacy will hang over the rest of this campaign.
Anyway, haven't we had enough of Presidents who gain power without truly being voted in?
It should be blatantly obvious that when you are voting on a Democrat Party ballot, that the candidate you are voting for is a Democrat. There should be no need to have to state it again. Let's hear it for common sense in Los Angeles County.
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Watching (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 313 comments)
on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 3:40:25 PM
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is tyranny by the masses. The Founding Fathers HATED democracy and established our country as a REPUBLIC to preserve the rights of individuals against the whims of the masses. Advocates of "democracy" are enemies of the USA. The words “democracy” or “democratic” were not used in ANY presidential speeches until the great collectivist Woodrow Wilson.
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M. Bennett (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 82 comments)
on Monday, February 11, 2008 at 7:27:34 PM
One Super Delegate equals ____________ voters. Is that fair? Why vote at all if the outcome is going to be determined by some political fat cat who will get paid off or get a job in exchange for his/her vote. Party members should determine who the candidate is and each one of their votes should count.
One Super Delegate even sold his vote for a dinner with Chelsea, who is not being pimped we have benn told.
The primary system for both parties is broken and needs to be fixed.
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Mad Jayhawk (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 305 comments)
on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 10:27:57 AM
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I AM SURPRISED, in all honesty, that this is not linked in more places. In my opinion, people who believe in the Democratic process (and I'm not even sure how much I do, anymore, especially given events like this which seem to happen over and over) would be incensed that the Registrar in charge of Los Angeles County would acknowledge that 94,000 votes, thats NINETY-FOUR THOUSAND VOTES will not be counted. Votes that were cast. By humans! Who thought their will would factor into the Democratic process! Who the hell is this person to assert that their votes are meaningless? 
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