CDR: Courts interfering with election

[Tim May]

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
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