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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Tuesday, December 14, 2004

Blinded by a plank

The folks at Redstate, in the midst of celebrating a ruling in Washington today that keeps all ballots previously rejected by voting machines out of the recount process, decide to lay some groundwork in the battle over the 561 votes that were wrongly rejected:
Because the 561 uncounted ballots were not counted prior to official certification, there may be away around those. In fact, integrity in the process should call those ballots into question. The fact that a month after the election and several weeks after the certification 561 ballots mysteriously showed up in one of the most Democrat leaning counties should give the Court pause for concern.

Grammatical errors aside, what is it about Republicans and their fear of democracy? Integrity in the process should make sure that every vote is counted, and people do not lose their voice because of human or machine error.

Of course, those ballots did not "mysteriously show up," either. They were legitimately cast votes that were rejected initially because the voter's signatures were not properly checked. Nothing strange about that.

What is strange is that Republicans are ouraged when a Democrat legally challenges the outcome of an election, but remain silent as one of their own continues his quest to overturn the will of the people of Texas. Since his election day loss to Democrat Hubert Vo, (which a recount confirmed), Republican Talmadge Heflin has been shouting his conspiracy theories in hopes of usurping the people and allowing his GOP friends in the legislature to put him back into office. Two other Republican's have also challenged their election losses in the same manner.

Where is the Republican outrage at their actions? Where are Redstaters questioning the integrity of these results? I'm eager to hear them.