Author: Graham Laight
Date: 03:18:40 11/11/00
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On November 11, 2000 at 01:23:30, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I don't know why you react this way because of the US election. > >Our states have a lot of power in our governmental system, because the country >was first organized as a series of colonies. The colonies combined in order to >fight England, but there wasn't a strong central government for some time after >that war ended, and the states maintained quite a bit of power after that. > >Our constitution provides for a two-tiered electoral process. We vote for a >president, but what we are really voting for is electors, who are people who >vote the way we tell them to. Each state gets a certain number of electors and >it's winner take all. > >It just so happens that the election was close, so Florida's electors will >decide the issue, and the vote in Florida was extrmely close. > >I don't see why this is something that.anyone would think is defective or funny. > It's an election, sometimes they are close. An obvious alternative is not to >have elections, but we are attached to them here. I don't think you appreciate how bad the situation looks from overseas. Zimbabwe is offering to send election monitors: Cuba is calling the USA a banana republic: you can read it all at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1016000/1016830.stm Votes can arrive up to 10 days after polling has closed. Voting forms are unclear. Votes have gone missing. Worst of all, there's no doubt in my mind that the arguments over the result of this election will never, never, never go away. -g >I think your attitude about the US is strange. You'd probably react the same >way if I developed a Nazi fixation which caused me to bring this particular >topic up every time Germany is mentioned. I'm sure it'd be really funny if I >kept doing this amongst my friends, assuming they had a problem with Germans, >which they don't. But this crowd is international, and when you do this you >just sound narrow, and I wonder if you've done sufficient travelling. > >Perhaps Europeans are more anti-American than Americans are anti-European. I'd >like to think not. > >bruce
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