At 4:18 PM -0800 11/7/00, Tim May wrote:
I thought I was jaded, but this is too much even for me to believe.
A judge in St. Louis has ordered the polls kept open later, until 10 pm local time. The effect will be to let more inner city, Democrat-leaning voters vote.
The rural and suburban polling places will close at the normal times.
Whew.
Democrats are elated that more of their supporters will be able to vote in the extra hours.
A similar measure was turned down in another state (Kansas?).
Democrats in other urban areas are hustling to see if they can get their own bought judges involved in the process.
A stunning theft of the election. If these "late Democrats" turn out to be the margin of victory, this will energize the anger of the Republicans.
I just had a Cypherpunks numbskull (who was also actively on the wrong side in the Elian debate) send me private mail asking why I would object to this. His exact words were: "It's hard to imagine that someone quite disgusted with our pseudo-democratic government will argue against ensuring that everyone has a chance to vote ..." Sometimes I despair. We may need to make a list of the Cypherpunks idiots here and "mark them for deletion" during the next GC. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.