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50,000 FLORIDA BALLOTS LOST - DEMOCRACY NEXT TO GO?
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steeleyes
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Thursday, 28th October 2004 @ 06:27:10 AM in AEST
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50,000 FL. BALLOTS LOST -DEMOCRACY NEXT?
Another voting farce is coming up
And then a battle will erupt
Claims and counter claims will fly
As hopes of democracy fade and die
Already 50,000 Florida ballots are “lost”
Who knows why or the potential cost?
Suspicions surround who’s making a push
For illegal power, could be Jeb Bush?
Have things not come to a piteous state
When a country already divided by hate
Sees politicians destroy democracy to win
In an ugly blizzard of sleazy spin?
What happened to America the UNITED States?
It is now filled with numerous hates
What kind of leader caused all this?
One who took disaster and made a crisis
Shouldn’t a good leader unite ALL his people
How come George Bush did NOT?
Shouldn’t a good leader inspire goodwill?
Why did we reach this ROT?
In part it was incompetence
In part it was a narrow call
Intended for hawks who once were small
Who waited in the wings for their day to act
And their dirty schemes to enact
American freedom they wished to curb
To move America toward another goal
A wish to manipulate them and control
To take you back to a darker day
To make their plans, to have their way
And Bush?
Bush was and is the puppet
And Cheney the mouthpiece
Who controls the Muppet
And behind them truly ugly men
Kristol, Perle and a gruesome clan
They speak of democracy
But take it apart
They have nothing but ice
In their heart
Scheming for power
That requires deceit
Moving the masses
And guiding their feet
Taking the people to a place they don’t choose
The neocon scheme will ENSURE you lose
All kinds of freedom in your life
In place of harmony they will bring strife
America needs a leader who can unite
ALL the people in an HONOURABLE fight
Not dividing us all friend from friend
But an honest consensus to heal and mend
Of course the shock jock hawks
Will still rave on and on
Trying to kill him like Clinton
Until he’s gone
But this time we will see their ugly game
And how they hurt America in their shame
The scandal of Florida will repeat again
More abuses from the partisan frame
As the world looks on amazed at this
A high-tech nation in disgrace
As hanging chads and confusion
Fill the air
So bringing democracy
In despair
What kind of leader failed to act?
There were four years for a system we could back
Fifty thousand papers have now disappeared
And democracy may be next, as we feared...
--O//--
Florida ballot papers go missing
Tens of thousands of postal ballots have gone missing in the US state of Florida, sparking fresh concern over irregularities in the poll campaign.
Some 60,000 absentee ballots were despatched by authorities in Broward County, north of Miami, this month.
However, only 2,000 of them have been delivered.
Florida was the centre of controversies which delayed the result in 2000, with George W Bush eventually declared the winner in the state by 537 votes.
Electoral officials have been overwhelmed by calls from anxious would-be voters who are not going to be able to get to the polls next Tuesday and fear that their votes have been stolen.
The missing ballots have fuelled an atmosphere of intense suspicion in Florida, with Democrats already backing nine separate law suits in the state, says the BBC's Justin Webb in Washington.
If the outcome is close and decides the result in the presidential race - and both of those eventualities are perfectly possible - it seems virtually certain that protracted legal battles will follow, our correspondent says.
'Beyond our control'
A police investigation into the missing ballots has not uncovered any indication of criminal wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, the US postal service inspectorate said it was highly unlikely that 58,000 pieces of mail had just disappeared.
A spokesman said inspectors were trying to establish whether the ballots were ever delivered to the postal service.
Broward County election official Gisela Salas said the situation was 'something beyond our control'.
'We really have no idea what's going on,' she told the Associated Press news agency.
Lawsuits
Campaigners are working to ensure that no one loses their vote because of the missing ballots.
Democratic Party legislators have called on the electoral authorities to publish newspaper ads telling people of other options for voting.
They also accused the Republican-dominated state government of dirty tricks.
In 2000, Broward gave Al Gore his biggest margin among Florida counties. He won 67% of the vote there, while losing the state to George W Bush.
'It looks like they're trying to steal the vote again,' said Diane Glasser, vice-chairwoman of the Florida Democratic Party.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have already begun filing lawsuits in states across the US, challenging different aspects of the election process.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3960679.stm
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Re: 50,000 FLORIDA BALLOTS LOST - DEMOCRACY NEXT TO GO?
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by thumper on
Thursday, 28th October 2004 @ 06:40:52 AM AEST
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Good one, Steeleyes.
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Re: 50,000 FLORIDA BALLOTS LOST - DEMOCRACY NEXT TO GO?
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by Former_Member on
Thursday, 28th October 2004 @ 07:03:59 AM AEST
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You beat me to this one, Steel. If this happened in the UK, I'd go burn down the Houses Of Parliament.
For real. |
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Re: 50,000 FLORIDA BALLOTS LOST - DEMOCRACY NEXT TO GO?
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by outsider on
Thursday, 28th October 2004 @ 07:21:20 AM AEST
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| I read that article on the BBC news site a couple of hours ago. They got away with it 4 years ago, I hope this time they do not. As Ken Livingstone, a real Labour, not "New Labour" politician once said, "If democracy actually worked they'd change it" Good write |
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Re: 50,000 FLORIDA BALLOTS LOST - DEMOCRACY NEXT TO GO?
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by Lionel on
Thursday, 28th October 2004 @ 09:02:07 AM AEST
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The Supreme Court, mostly liberals, would not let the demo's in Fla. steal the election, and they've been crying foul ever since. I've never seen so much hatred toward a man (Mr. Bush) in my life. And I disagree with much of his policies. Other-wise, an interesting read.
Ps. I kinda agree about the neo's. - Kristol, Perle, etal. |
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Re: 50,000 FLORIDA BALLOTS LOST - DEMOCRACY NEXT TO GO?
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by rubytears on
Thursday, 28th October 2004 @ 09:33:18 AM AEST
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i like it allot
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