from declan mccullah's list. best blow by blow when things got hairy last night!
>From: Adam Powell <apowell at freedomforum.org>
>To: "'declan at well.com'" <declan at well.com>
>Subject: but will online voting elect Bush?
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:36:02 -0500
>X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
>
>Declan,
>
>It's reported that the 5,000 Florida votes that have not been counted at all
>are overseas absentee -- mostly military. That can only be good news for
>Bush, given how heavily the military went for the GOP. But now the Internet
>angle...
>
>There's an interesting Internet voting angle here: There is a little-known
>federal experiment in Internet voting taking place this week involving
>troops overseas who vote in -- yes -- Florida. According to Polli Brunelli
>from FVAP, the agency administering the test [http://www.fvap.ncr.gov/],
>speaking at our eVoting workshop here last month [see
>http://www.netvoting.org/], the number of troops would be very small -- no
>more than a few thousand -- who otherwise might not have been able to get
>their ballots back to Florida by the deadline. But, but, but... Could this
>be the first year the Internet decides a presidential contest????
>
>Cheers
>Adam
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>Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 05:09:37 -0500
>To: declan at well.com
>From: Rich Cowan <rich at organizenow.net>
>Subject: Re: FC: Al Gore is only 630 votes away from winning the
> election
>
>as you may know, this has narrowed to 224 votes according to voter news
>service. by the way, this is what you get when you try to reach
>the election results site below:
>
>Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'
>[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]Specified SQL server not
>found.
>/SummaryRpt.inc, line 51
>
>so look who is providing the db software used to tally the votes
>in the state that will determine the presidential election!
>
>-r
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>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:06:45 -0800 (PST)
>From: "Bradley K. Sherman" <bks at emf.net>
>To: declan at well.com
>Subject: Waitress! Civics Lessons all 'round
>
>
>It's Wed Nov 8 09:01:59 PST 2000. Do you know where your
>Elector is?
>
> >From <URL:http://www.nara.gov/fedreg/elctcoll/faq.html>
>
> Are electors required to vote for the candidate who won
> his or her State's popular vote?
>
> There is no Constitutional provision or Federal law that
> requires electors to vote according to the results of the
> popular vote in their States. Some States (24 plus DC at
> last count) require electors to cast their votes according
> to the popular vote. These pledges fall into two categories
> -- electors bound by State law and those bound by pledges to
> political parties.
>
> The Supreme Court has held that the Constitution does not
> require that electors be completely free to act as they
> choose and therefore, political parties may extract pledges
> from electors to vote for the parties' nominees. Some State
> laws provide that so-called "faithless electors" may be subject
> to fines or may be disqualified for casting an invalid vote and
> be replaced by a substitute elector. The Supreme Court has not
> specifically ruled on the question of whether pledges and
> penalties for failure to vote as pledged may be enforced under
> the Constitution. No elector has ever been prosecuted for
> failing to vote as pledged.
>
> Today, it is rare for electors to disregard the popular vote
> by casting their electoral vote for someone other than their
> party's candidate. Electors generally hold a leadership
> position in their party or were chosen to recognize years of
> loyal service to the party. Throughout our history as a nation,
> more than 99 percent of electors have voted as pledged.
>
>
>How wonderful it was to see the pundits squirm! Worth every
>second of ambiguity. Also, how about a little credit to
>Buchanan for demolishing the Reform party? A Republican
>apparachnik to the end.
>
> --bks
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>From: "Kevin Harper" <kmharper at bastienarchitects.com>
>To: <declan at well.com>
>Subject: Image of Palm Beach ballot
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:38:30 -0800
>
>Some are saying that the Palm Beach ballot is confusing.
>
>I don't think it is, and being a Republican, I believe W. is our
>legitimate President Elect.
>
>In the interest of public discourse, however, here is a GIF image of the
>ballot in question.
>
>I've made it available at www.worldfilm.com/tvr/palmballot.gif .
>
>Thanks, I appreciate your list.
>
>Kevin Harper
>webmaster, worldfilm.com
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