Net War Room for Bush vs Kerry Debate

ancice writes "Article by Wired. Seems like Bush and Kerry are going to battle in cyberspace. The Bush Team is going to have a War Room to provide live rebuttals to thousands of conversative blogs. Not much info on Kerry's response though. This seems like a good use of the Information Super Highway. Would be interesting to see how this War Room will affect the election. Will this tactic be successful or will it be information overload? Worse still, will technology be exploited? Tune in on Thursday."

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Re:Wired helps excuse the media

[JabberWokky]

Gore did not win. The several hundred electoral votes were cast and Bush won.

You can complain however you want about how Florida handled their votes, but states can cast their votes any way they want, including by the choice of the governor, theocratic selection or dartboard. If there were any laws broken, they were Florida laws, and the Florida courts have determined that none were.

To make it utterly clear: States do not have to let individuals cast votes at all for the President. They do so currently, but have no legal reason to. Florida operates (like many states) on a 'whoever gets the most votes gets all our electoral votes'. They also do not let certain people vote, as is their perogative.

Florida chose to vote how they did and reviewed the vote themselves, by their laws, and decided it was okay. There are *no* Federal laws compelling electoral votes whatsoever.

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Evan