At 2:43 PM -0500 11/11/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 09:05:54AM -0800, Tim May wrote:
Hilarious. Things are falling apart better and with more acrimony than I'd hoped. [...snip...] And so it goes, with recounts, judicial adjustments, do overs, and other such things requested in dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of counties.
As much as I'd appreciate, purely from the perspective of continued amusement, this perpetual election to continue, I suspect it won't.
At least some Dems are publicly telling Al to back down: http://www.perpetualelection.com/article.pl?sid=00/11/11/090229
If Al's stated litigiousness becomes perceived as a liability, we might see a kind of trip from Capitol Hill to the Naval Observatory to tell Al enough is enough. The irony is that one of the senators most tempermentally likely to do so is, of course, the Dem VP candidate.
* Stage One of the FUD Campaign, Wednesday morning: "They found a whole box of ballots in an inner city, Democratic-leaning, pre-school! This will throw the election to Gore." (quickly turned out that this alleged ballot box contained stationery supplies) * Stage Two of the FUD Campaign, Wednesday evening: "Thousands of elderly Jewish voters were tricked by the confusing ballot into voting for Pat Buchanan." (turned out that, based on interviews, nearly every Jew in Palm Beach County claims to have accidentally voted for Buchanan, or double-voted. The numbers don't support this, and other counties had spoiled ballots, too. A Republican-leaning county in northern Florida had 22,000 spoiled ballots.) * Stage Three of the FUD Campaign, all day Thursday and continuing: "At least 20,000 ballots were spoiled because elderly Jewish Democrats got confused and tried to vote for Gore after discovering they accidentally voted for Buchanan. We demand a re-vote!" * Stage Four of the FUD Campaign, current: "We demand a manual recount. Two counts, the first one and then the state-mandated machine recount, are not enough. We are certain that if certain counties are counted again, and again, that the extra votes we need will be found." [As Jesse Jackson and Johnnie Cockroach might singsong: "If our lead does not mount, you must re-count!'] * Stage Five of the FUD Campaign, ongoing: "The whole Electoral Thing is a throwback to the whitemale patriarchy. What matters is the popular vote, the first one, before Bush temporarily took the lead by manipulating the recounts in New Mexico, Wisconsin, Iowa, and other states. The Peeples spoke on Tuesday night!" A lot of Democrats need to be dealt with when this is (temporarily) through. --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.