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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
It's not who votes that counts but who counts the votes: Clerk of U.S. House Publishes 2008 Election Returns
From Ballot Access News:
Ever since 1920, the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives has published a booklet entitled “Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election” after each presidential election. The Clerk has just published the 2008 booklet. It is 77 pages long and can be seen here.
This booklet uses arbitrary standards. For example, in the presidential table at the rear of the book, the “Independent” column contains the Ralph Nader vote, and Nader is properly credited with votes from every state but Oklahoma (because Oklahoma bans write-ins). This is true, even though Nader had different ballot labels in different states. In most states it was “independent” but in California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, and Utah, it was something else. But, the “Independent” column collected all of Nader’s votes, regardless of label.
However, in the next-door column, the “Libertarian” column does not include any votes for Bob Barr from Tennessee. Instead, the authors of the table put the Tennessee Barr vote in the “Other” column, because Barr’s ballot label in Tennessee was “independent.” Also the chart omits Barr’s Maine write-in votes, even though the Secretary of State tallied them.
Read the rest.
And who does count the votes? It's whoever fills the office of Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, in this case Lorraine Miller, former director of intergovernmental relations for Nancy Pelosi (the woman now second in the US Presidential line of succession after VP Joe Biden). But don't worry, the Clerk is not always a Democrat, when the Republicans are in charge, they put in own of their own. That's democracy folks, popular sovereignty--government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Posted by Kalim Kassam on July 29, 2009 in U.S. politics | Permalink
Comments
Kalim. I think that unintentionally you make a very good case not to vote at all. The system is corrupt and manipulated, even more so by electronic voting. And the underlying fact is that it doesn't matter who you vote for anyway.
Left, right, red, blue, green...you get more government intervention and globalist indoctrination. If we're going to vote it will have to be for someone or something completely new and uncorrupted.
Posted by: The original JC | 2009-07-30 6:32:44 AM
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