Has Voting Become That Hard?
Biloxi at The Republic of Biloxi on Oct 31 2006 at 1:30 pm | Filed under: Election 2006, Feature Article
Given the dearth of respectable and worthy candidates one might say yes to the headline question, but that wasn’t exactly the angle I was looking for here.
Starting with the disputed 2000 election, people have been looking for voting reform or something like it, when in actuality a huge shakeup was hardly needed. Now we have early voting for a month prior to an election, people crying about the difficult “butterfly ballot”, and a hue and cry claiming disenfranchisement. So optical scan and computer voting was brought in. Many have complained of voter fraud over the past two national elections, crying foul at the victors but with little proof of said fraud. In Florida during the 2000 election the Gore campaign actually asked for their recount in heavily democratic counties hoping to glean a few votes from the old hanging chads.
Others Bloggin or who have Blogged on this subject:
Black Five
Betsy’s Page
Texas Rainmaker
Stuck on Stupid
Stop the ACLU
candidates, 2000 election, butterfly ballot, Gore, democratic, hanging chads
