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The first question Lee Bird asks in his “TTioughts on the Election,” Feb. 7, is “What went wrong?” My own answer of course, is, “Nothing,” but it is not only the question that bothers me, but the answers he gives. They are the same ones the national press came up with, rich Republicans impoverishing and treading down on poor downtrodden Democrats and giving them tacky voting machines to play ydth, Play with? Why would I say that? Ill tell you why.
In the Washington Post on Jan. 20, there was a picture of rdemonstrators stopping off in Tallahassee on their way to the District to protest the Bush election. One of them was carrying a sign saying, “Hail to the Thief.” Down in paragraph 12 of the story accompanying the picture is the information that on election day, this woman and her husband took their nine year 6ld daughter with them to the polls and allowed her to punch their ballots for them.
WTiy they didn’t bring the ' family dog along and a picnic lunch and make a day of it right there, I do not under. stand, since apparently, in Florida, if the precinct is Democratic enough, you don’t | nave to be serious about casting a vote, let along counting it properly. It must have come , as quite a shock when the liilarity died down and there weren’t enough votes to hand , the election to the pre-elected ‘winner.
And a worse shock when ‘ after three recounts, there still weren’t enough. And yet * another when the unbelieving loser took to the courts to attack the winner, and the winner was wicked enough to defend himself! In the courts!
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