Don White wrote:
While flippin' channels yesterday, I breezed through CNN.
There was some king of panel with Wolfe Blitzer, that tall lanky guy, Jack
McClafferty? and a couple others.
They were talking about some voting irregularities in Washington (state?) by
the Republicans. Apparantly, the people counting the ballots figured they
could predict the outcome at a certain point in their counting..so packed it
in before finishing. What the &*^?
Canada may have to start sending down observers to make sure things are run
on the up & up. Afterall someone has to help protect that fledging democracy
you'all call the U.S.of A.




That apparently is what happened. Despite a close race in the GOP
primary, when the counters had counted about 80% of the ballots, the
state GOP guy said that's enough, stop counting.

Welcome to Amerika. In 2008, GOP voters will leave the polls with ink
smudges on their thumbs they can hold up to show they favor elections,
but not democracy. :-)