Tuesday, December 14, 2004
VOTING IS JUST TOO DAMN HARD
Oops ... Minnesota had ten DFL (read: blue donkey) electors this year and one of them screwed up (or protested up) and cast his/her vote for John "Ewards" instead of John Kerry:
No Diebold shenanigans could have been at play. The ballots were handwritten.
UPDATE: Hep to this strategem, Oklahoma apparently fines its electors if they don't vote as promised.
UPDATE II: Perhaps it wasn't a senior moment after all. 63% of those who voted in the handwriting poll at Minnesota Democrats Exposed think Chandler "Harry" Stevens cast the wayward ballot. Yes! The very same Chandler "Harry" Stevens who once ran against John Kerry! The plot thickens...
"It was perhaps a senior moment," said elector Michael Meuers, 60, a Bemidji marketing consultant for a health care firm, the second-youngest member of the Minnesota delegation to the Electoral College.Flash from local blog Centrisity claims the alleged Dementor was NOT his mom (via Bogus Gold). That leaves nine suspects...
No Diebold shenanigans could have been at play. The ballots were handwritten.
UPDATE: Hep to this strategem, Oklahoma apparently fines its electors if they don't vote as promised.
UPDATE II: Perhaps it wasn't a senior moment after all. 63% of those who voted in the handwriting poll at Minnesota Democrats Exposed think Chandler "Harry" Stevens cast the wayward ballot. Yes! The very same Chandler "Harry" Stevens who once ran against John Kerry! The plot thickens...
