At 7:15 AM +0000 11/8/00, David E. Smith wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Tim May wrote:
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.
A similar measure was turned down in another state (Kansas?).
Kansas City, Missouri, actually (IIRC, natch).
The whole point, really, isn't so much about the Presidential race as it is to try to elect the dead guy to Congress.
I can only wonder at the logic of this whole charade -- yeah, the lines were a little long (I'm in a St. Louis 'burb, and I voted at 8 a.m.), but that's pretty much par for the course.
(The ridiculous can o' worms that one opens up, if it turns out the late Mel Carnahan wins his election, is one that I'd rather not deal with at one in the morning. :)
The dead guy won by a narrow margin. It'll be interesting to do the calculations on how many "late voters" were let in after the official polling hours because of this Democrat judge's actions. The last time an election was stolen by these kinds of fraudulent measures, the 1960 election, the fraudster was terminated with extreme prejudice a few years later. --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.