Posted on 11/09/2010 10:08:58 PM PST by BAW
I don’t particularly like lawyers and stuff, but how the hell do you know if someone that wrote in Murcowski wasn’t just trying to stick it to the cow? For that matter how does anyone know? “Voter intent” is a complete sham. The votes should be cast and counted in accordance with the law period.
BTW I completely agree with the poster that called you a RINO or worse. Anyone that clings to “voter intent” rather than law can in no way be considered conservative.
I wish they would show some back bone and take it, if it is brought to them.
Yes Ginsberg etc would want to rule for The Cow.
If you don’t know what Levin said to him, how do you know he was really on? :)
Thank you. :)
The best part of the law is the part that states that it is mandatory and there are NO exceptions. Pretty clear law, imho.
Thanks, but there was another list. I think it must have been before that one. It also listed those who had applied, but who been rejected, and the reason for their rejection.
I found that list. My memory was a little off. It was this person that I was thinking of.
* Lisa L. Crusberg (Republican) - Write-in - Denied - Received too late
Notice that Joe Miller is on this list, and he was not denied. I never could figure out how he was not on the final list.
“http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617466/posts
The law is very clear about “no exceptions”.
“If It’s Not Close, They Can’t Cheat: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It”
Hugh Hewitt
2004
http://www.amazon.com/Its-Close-They-Cant-Cheat/dp/0785263195?tag=dogpile-20
Nice move, Joe.
One Bush/Gore post-election account observed that the Bush team legally outmaneuvered Gore's people at every step---thanks to the legal brilliance of James Baker.
The USSC saw the Dem trick of counting and counting and counting til they get the numbers they need to win.....and summarily stopped the illegal FLA count.
This a no passa de smell test. Sue them to Outer Mongolia!
The Alaskan courts are corrupt and are always ruling for MurKow. They will rule against Joe Miller because he is Tea Party and a scummy Republican is far preferable to them
Savvy move.
In the interim I would also double check all hanging chads, and fly Katherine Harris up to Juneau as a good luck charm.
Probably State and Federal Union workers who were ordered to "write nasty comments against Joe and Sarah."
(I’ve emailed Dan Fagan and an Alaska Dispatch hack to try to verify this.)
Ironically, Lisa’s hopes may depend on the courts overturning a law her father wrote and signed.
A letter Frank wrote to the Legislature:
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/basis/get_jrn_page.asp?session=23&bill=HB266&jrn=0965&hse=H
“...Section 18 of the bill would amend AS 15.15.360(a) on the rules for
counting ballots, to provide a uniform definition of what constitutes a
vote as required by sec. 302(a)(6) of the HAVA.
Sincerely,
/s/
Frank H. Murkowski
Governor”
HAVA refers to the Help America Vote Act:
“302 (a)(6) Uniform definition of what constitutes a vote.—Each
State shall adopt uniform and nondiscriminatory standards that
define what constitutes a vote and what will be
counted as a vote for each category of voting system used in the
State.”
Under HAVA a Preliminary Plan must be prepared, w/ a 30-day public comment period.........distributed on the internet and hard copies broadly disseminated. The public would also attend six of the Committee’s twelve work sessions and participate in six public hearings.
In one state---NJ---the state's chief election officer---the AG----used HAVA grants to pay for food and transportation at hip-hop summits aimed at getting young people to vote.
The federal HAVA commission, known as EAC, deemed AG Harvey's Hip-Hop Summits conducted before the 2004 presidential and 2005 gubernatorial elections a creative way to educate voters, but it said states cannot use federal grants doled out under the Help America Vote Act for entertainment costs like food and travel.
"EAC considers food provided to students at the summits and transportation provided to students to and from the summit as entertainment costs and not an allowable use of HAVA funds," the audit said. "In addition to being unallowable, EAC does not consider the costs reasonable since the summits were broadcast via the Internet to other schools that did not incur food and travel expenses to obtain the same information."
The New Jersey State Plan Committee for HAVA under Attorney General Peter C. Harvey, New Jersey's Chief Election Official, appointed a diverse group of individuals to act as a committee to assist him in the development of the State Plan to qualify for federal funding under the "Help America Vote Act of 2002" (HAVA).
AG Harvey said he selected individuals with a demonstrated commitment to the State's electoral process and the desire and creativity to make elections easier and better for voters.
State election laws are written precisely for a reason, so that there is no subjective vote counting.
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