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Circuit Court Okays Vote Swapping Site
scubacuda writes "C|net reports that the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals court has ruled in favor of Alan Porter's website, Voteexchange2000.com, a site enabling Gore and Nader voters to swap their Gore votes in states where Bush was likely to win anyway for the Green party candidate Nader. In response to the court's decision, Mark Rosenbaum, legal director of the ACLU's Southern California office, said, "We're pleased that the court's ruling permits us to challenge the legality of the secretary of state's partisan attempt to silence political speech on the Internet during the 2000 election." (For a look at some of the legal issues behind "vote swapping," visit Gigalaw)"
A better approach: Ramsey Clark's initiative to impeach Bush (and other officials of his adminstration, including Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft) --
http://www.votetoimpeach.org/
-kgj
Bush *is* the enemy of civilisation. He is an evil, evil man, who must be shot, and buried in an unmarked grave somewhere that no-one goes.
Sorry, I didn't really answer your question. Bush is an evil fucker, because he is stirring up war in a previously stable, if not actually peaceful, part of the world. All he wants out of Iraq is cheap oil. The North Koreans are a far bigger threat than the Iraqis, but there's no sign of troops going in there - why? Because you got your arses handed to you last time?
In the rest of the world, we watch America with a growing sense of morbid curiosity. What stupid law will you pass today, to restrict your own freedom with no positive side? Which terrorist are you going to arm now, since the IRA has quietened down? There's actually a bookmaker in the UK who has opened a book on what Bush will fuck up next. Kyoto's dead, and killing a huge amount of American teenagers by sending them to the Gulf has pretty short odds...
The 9th Circuit has the highest appeal overturn rate of any circuit court. We're talking 3/4 of their decisions that get appealed to the Supreme Court get overturned.
Some of their gems:
- Declaring the pledge of allegiance unconstitutional because it mentions "under God". Gee, I guess our currency and Constitution are also unconstitutional then as well.
- Deciding that the 2nd Ammendment didn't apply to individuals, despite the fact that every other Ammendment in the Bill of Rights does, and despite the prepondence of jurisprudence from other court decisions that say it does as well.
Just about any wacko, leftist cause coming out of San Fransisco gets venerated by these guys.
Is it any wonder that they approved vote swapping?
My guess is, they'd probably allow illegal aliens to vote as well. I guess the Democrats are still pissed about not being able to bus in enough homeless people with bribes of $10 and a carton of cigarettes to win the Congressional elections.