I'd like to point out that the actual head of elections in
the state, Butterworth, is the chair of Gore's election
committee in the state. The recounts have generally gone
Gore's way, so you could make the opposite assumption here
if you want.
IMHO, there is little or no deliberate cheating, just
a shitty human process that requires a bit of peace to
complete. And of course peace is the one thing they ain't
going to get. =)
Personally, I find it all pretty amusing. When things
get edgy, the fringe crowd starts squealing. The most remarkable
data that will come from this will be just how shrill people
who take a process like this to heart can get. I've got
three close friends (2 Ds, 1 R) who I've put on delete-without-reading
mode for email because I'm sick of the belly-aching.
Thanks to the possibility of Electoral College Representatives
being able to secretly vote and them being able to vote
whichever way they please, we literally won't know who the
President-Elect is till January 6th. Which is unfortunately
my birthday and amusingly Epiphany.
Obligatory useless perl code (like the elections, perl is
a constant source of suprise and amusement):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;seek DATA,0,0;print()while(<DATA>)__DATA__
--
$you = new YOU;
honk() if $you->love(perl) |