Thursday, November 9, 2000

Questions of the Day -- 9:51 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Where is the (non-beta) Q3A 1.25 patch?

Why are so many people surprised at voting "irregularities" in Florida?

Why, after a great (by recent standards) voter turnout, are so many groups willing to risk alienating voters simply because their candidate may not win?

UPDATE! I guess I spoke too soon. There are now reports, according to this morning's paper, of possible voting "irregularities" in my state of Wisconsin. There are accusations that some people offered homeless people in Milwaukee cigarettes to vote for Gore. Sigh.

I also saw the ballot that is causing so much debate in Florida on CNN.com. I know I've used similar ballots. The only way you could mess that up is if either you didn't take your time or you are a moron. If this ballot was so bad, why didn't the Democratic or Republican supervisors (who had to approve it) complain in the first place? I'm sorry, this is abject stupidity.

UPDATE #2 I wish this were a joke, but it isn't. The people of Missouri elected a dead man to be their Senator. The man who lost, Senator John Ashcroft, said:

Missouri is a compassionate state. And I think that in a very special way, they have demonstrated the compassion which they have.

I think it also demonstrates profoud idiocy. HELLO FOLKS! You aren't voting for prom king here. This isn't a "lifetime achievement" award. It's a scary thing when reality is weirder than anything I could dream up.

News for 11/09/2000

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