At 1:04 PM -0800 11/11/00, Tim May wrote:
At 11:55 AM -0800 11/11/00, Tim May wrote:
* Stage Four of the FUD Campaign, current: "We demand a manual recount. Two
* Stage 4.5 of the FUD Campaign, Saturday afternoon: "It's the chads, the little pieces of paper punched out but hanging by a thread." (How appropriate: "hanging by a thread") The Democrats are demanding that ballots marked as spoiled be checked to see if they have "indentations" or "chads."
Of course, how these indentations or chads have anything to do with Democrats vs. Republicans is unclear...
Except that the Democrat Party is requesting the recounts in heavily Democrat precincts!
* Stage 4.6 of the FUD Campaign, late Saturday afternoon: It was just revealed on Fox News that the northern Florida county with the 20,000 spoiled ballots is Duval County and that there WILL NOT BE A RECOUNT of the ballots because the 72-hour time limit for challenging the count has passed. (This was from the female director/whatever of the Elections Commission in Duval County, who said that the ballots could not be subject to the same kind of inspection being seen in the other counties to the south because the 72-hour time limit had just passed....) In other words, the Democrats are getting a third count in heavily-Democrat counties because they hustled into town with their lawyers and filed at least 8 lawsuits and screamed and squawked that their peoples had been "discriminated against." Though they've changed the grounds for their complaints several times--see earlier FUD points--this "held the door open" for the manual scrutiny of the "chads" and "indentations" and "voter intent" we're now seeing in the precincts the Democrats are having re-re-counted. The Republicans, on the other hand, took the results as a done deal and thus have let the 72-hour deadline in Duval County (and other such counties, one presumes) pass. "You snooze, you lose." Ah, America. Where the true victors are lawyers. And where the Democrats will likely steal the election by getting "a third bite of the apple." Fucked up, yes. --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.