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| Last Edited | None Entered Dec 06, 2004 05:58am |
| Category | Editorial |
| News Date | Dec 03, 2004 12:00am |
| Description | The Silly Season is long over, but the Loony Season has entered full swing.
More than four weeks after George W. Bush won the presidential election, a handful of fools continue to challenge results and insist the November balloting was illegitimate.
On Tuesday, Washoe County District Judge Peter Breen correctly tossed out a ridiculous lawsuit that sought to block Nevada's five Republican electors from casting their ballots for Mr. Bush this month because registration problems might have prevented a handful of Silver State voters from casting ballots.
"No doubt some errors and calculated efforts occurred in this hotly contested election," Judge Breen said. Indeed, no election of this scope in the history of modern times has been completely error free. But as the judge noted, there is no indication that the results -- Mr. Bush carried Nevada by 21,500 votes -- were compromised.
In the meantime, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, blissfully unconcerned about retaining what little credibility he has left, runs around Ohio screaming fraud. The president carried the Buckeye State by 136,000 votes, but that hasn't stopped the Rev. Jackson from endorsing a left-wing group's plan to contest the Ohio results.
They are abetted by the Libertarian and Green parties, who still seek recounts in Ohio and New Mexico, even though they admit the results of the election won't change. (The two minor parties dropped their request for a Nevada recount Thursday, when presented with a $346,000 bill for the pointless undertaking.)
All this is under the guise of making sure "every vote counts," a noble-sounding but impossible goal. In fact, the Rev. Jackson and other whining liberals are simply upset that their candidate didn't win. The motivation for the two third-party candidates? When you can't poll more than 0.5 percent nationally, you take what headlines you can get.
Washoe County Registrar Daniel Burk called the now-abandoned Green and Libertarian request for a Nevada r |
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