Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Woodward Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: OT Politics Re: Three Body Problem Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 10:16:27 -0700 Organization: home user Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <8s09djtklqf5uofrs0aj4m8nc4j6135n4q@4ax.com> <93redjtqecdjfl5v1a8qf3m6paejlao3ls@4ax.com> <8ibmdjl6jljdhibdqkol8r02t95cqn6oif@4ax.com> X-Trace: individual.net eh+NKjoJrv6OxOQa/3DXOwVIN6qFMxxDdcHvvnYRrHz5Azx286 X-Orig-Path: robertaw Cancel-Lock: sha1:9beCAEHHH5NHu4TWB6GMJdWn82Y= sha256:WV8mgnJJA131Ji/Kh9cfGY+mI6rZxGKlHrAJDS02z+M= User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (Intel Mac OS X) Bytes: 2184 In article <8ibmdjl6jljdhibdqkol8r02t95cqn6oif@4ax.com>, Paul S Person wrote: > > It is, however, true that all the spectacular stuff (forcing a House > District election to be completely redone, alternate Elector slates > done so incompetently that those on them are liable to trial, ballots > so confusing that votes for the Republican candidate actually went to > a thrid party candidate in Florida in 2000, etc, etc) was done by > Republicans. Since, say, 2000 or so anyway. > IIRC, the problem in at least one county was that the voters who were trying to vote for Gore (Democrat) were so confused by the ballot (this was in a majority Democrat county) that they voted for a 3rd party candidate instead. -- "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement." Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ------------------------------------------------------- Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com