Phil Farber
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Votescam!

This scummy Florida hanky panky is NOT cool!

It's an honest-to-goodness coup d'etat!

The popular vote was for Gore.

If the coke-dealing Bushes and their Banana Republican Congress succeed in shoving El Retardo Jr. down our throats it's gonna backfire! The whole thing reads like a goddamned Third World soap opera.

Let's just elect Imelda Marcos, instead!

What's with this keystone cops, sloppy poll-rigging, anyway? You'd think they could be slicker than that! Could this is the first sign of what life after Slick Willie will look like!?

Nobody will EVER vote Republican again, in the face of such obvious criminality in their party, let alone allow such a patent brain damage victim to actually serve as president (reading some of Dubya's classic and copious misquotes makes me think, more and more, that Cathy O'Brien was on the money!)

If "elected" he won't make it, mark my words . . .

Give me Blowjob Bill, any day of the week! At least he's smart! Too bad he can't serve a third term . . .

Yikes! Talk about a Mercury retrograde!

Alexandra 'Chica' Bruce
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I'm just wondering if the Electoral College members can legally change their votes if they feel there was some foul play in the counting process. It would be interesting if they could exercise the electoral equivalent of jury nullification. Perhaps that's why there's a formal vote in the end, after all.

Douglas Rushkoff
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I can't seem to get too excited or upset over the weirdness happening in Florida in the US Presidential election, feeling more resigned to it. Just par for the course in an election that is as twisted and lacking of any real depth and sincerety as any I've ever lived through, with the mainstream offering two sides of the same system.

As one friend, author and researcher Kris Milligan, of cia-drugs and Parascope.com has noted, the confusion in Florida seems one more way to keep the populace off-balance, split apart and stressed out, just more "psychological games." This keeps the citizenry more maleable, and more easily lead The population is told the election is "close," but the People are not the deciding factor, the Electors in the Electoral College are. Who are the electors? Why is it theirs, and not the citizen's popular votes that will count now? Who is it not trusting the people to choose their leader?

By some of the disaffected voters getting riled and enthusiastic behind a candidate such as Ralph Nader, then the pudits repeatedly blaming those inspired voters for "throwing the election" to the more feared of the mainstream two, those voters actually practicing individual thought and responsibilty may be even less likely to buck the status quo next time around, if they even bother to vote.

If reports I've seen are correct, just 51 percent of the eligible US voters turned out to vote this year in 2000. Almost half of the people in this country who could vote didn't, not for Bush, not for Gore, not for Nader, not even for Browne, Gaskin, or Buchanan.

Sure makes for some suspenseful tv for the sports fans! And now more of the populace might wake up to the fact that things are off in America, as the mess in Florida, home of much corruption and vote fraud history grows messier, where the state governed by the brother of one of the candidates, reversed exit polls to throw the election into supposed confusion.

As Mike Ruppert of Copvcia.com notes, "People will begin asking questions about how this country works. They will have anxiety. They will doubt and they will have questions."