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The League of Women Voters and Common Cause have warned Florida Governor and Senator-elect Rick Scott that if he keeps hovering over the recount of the state’s ballots for governor and senator—he has already called in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate possible fraud—they’ll sue him for politicizing the recount. He should see them and raise them by calling in the FBI to investigate the Broward County Board of Elections.
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe How Florida elections work—or don’t. Myron Magnet. November 11, 2018. Politics and law. The League of Women Voters and Common Cause have warned Florida Governor and Senator-elect Rick Scott that if he keeps hovering over the recount of the state’s ballots for governor and senator—he has already called in the. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe Catcha' player by the toe If you want to let him go Ladies don't worry 'cause they got plenty more Men be falling like What Is the Chance of That Amy Grant.
The senatorial race is a federal election, after all, and the Voting Rights Act protects its fairness, especially down in the Deep South. So it cries out for federal oversight. It’s hard to think of a more suspect outfit than the Broward County Elections Board, a starring buffoon in the 2000 Bush v.
Gore hanging-chad farce. The board got a new chief after that debacle, but Governor Jeb Bush had to fire her in 2003, once the cronies she’d hired made a shambles of the 2002 balloting by opening polls late and closing them early.
Bush’s next appointment, current incumbent Brenda Snipes—like her predecessor a black woman Democrat, picked to defuse a political explosion on the firing of the only other black woman Democratic county official—has proved little better. Her board didn’t deliver 58,000 absentee ballots in the 2004 election, and it “lost” 1,000 ballots in the 2012 election.
Snipes broke the law in the 2016 election by posting results before the legal time, by destroying ballots before the law allowed, and by leaving a voter amendment off some ballots. In the current election, she has consistently failed to give updates on the number of uncounted ballots, as the law demands. One of her deputies says that a now-empty ballot box found in a closet in a school-auditorium polling place was just left behind, pending collection. “There’s no way I could pick up everything in two days,” the overburdened official avers. Little wonder that defeated Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum has recanted his concession to Ron DeSantis.
In Florida, why not keep on rolling the dice? Our democracy’s legitimacy rests on the honesty and trustworthiness of our voting process, which has grown as suspect as the days when loyal partisans would grow beards before election day to vote with them first in their full luxuriance, then with a trim to Vandyke neatness, next with the chin whiskers shaved off, then with the moustache gone, and finally with the mutton chops erased. Barbers were indispensable to the vote-and-vote-again process. Nowadays, we don’t purge voter rolls of the dead or relocated, we don’t require proof of eligibility through government-issued ID cards, our voting-machine technology is amateurish and easily hacked even when it does work, and our election officials are suspect.
This year’s official, taxpayer-funded New York State voter guide, to take one example, told voters, surely illegally, how to vote on the three ballot initiatives, while interpreters roamed the polling places to help prospective voters, who had supposedly demonstrated English proficiency as a condition of citizenship. Democrats believe President Trump illegitimate because he failed to win the popular vote while winning the Electoral College vote, in accord with the Constitution. Republicans are understandably suspicious of Democratic electoral victories in Chicago or St. Louis or Broward County because of old-fashioned, bald-faced fraud.
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Surely finding and fixing what’s broken here should be Priority One for our politics. The secret ballot is a great democratic advance, as long as you can trust it. Once you can’t, those responsible should go to jail., City Journal ’s Editor-at-Large, is a National Humanities Medal laureate. Encounter Books will publish his Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution in May.
Facebook So far, 560 shoppers have objected to the withdrawal of the white garment featuring the motif Eeny Meeny Miny Moe over a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. The design was inspired by a scene where character Negan, the bullying leader of a groupof survivors of the Zombie outbreak, selects victims with the rhyme whileholding the club. Twitter user @AdamCJMcClean posted a picture of the t-shirt writing: 'If you find this t shirt 'racist' you're part of the problem.' Gareth Puzy remarked: '@Primark why pull the t-shirt? 'Fanatically racist'?
Someone needs to get off their soap box #WalkingDead @WalkingDeadAMC'. Paul Eaton commented: '@Primark If the walking dead T-Shirt is racist then Jingle Bells is offensive as Batman told me he does not smell & Robin did not lay a egg' On Facebook the decision was greeted with equal contempt with users branding the decision 'f.ing pathetic'. John Hunter commented: 'Ah imagine a time where people weren't offended by Tshirts and baseball bats.' Primark was been forced to remove 'racist' t-shirts from its stores after shoppers complained about the phrase, 'eeny meeny miny moe' used on The Walking Dead branded clothing. The slogan used in the final episode of the sixth series of the American horror drama about zombies was written on a white men's t-shirt with a picture of a bloodied baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire. Shopper Ian Lucraft lodged a formal complaint about the 'explicit' message after spotting it in a branch in Sheffield.
He said: “It was fantastically offensive and I can only assume that no-one in the process of ordering it knew what they were doing or were aware of its subliminal messages. “The slogan is “Eeeny meenie miny moe.” 'It stops there, but of course we all know what the original said: “catch a n. by his toe.”.
“The graphic has a large American baseball bat, wrapped round with barbed wire, and covered with blood. 'This image relates directly to the practice of assaulting black people in America. “It is directly threatening of a racist assault, and if I were black and were faced by a wearer I would know just where I stood.” 'Eeny meeny miny moe' is a popular children's counting rhyme used in games of tag, which dates back to 1820.
Primark chiefs have now apologised and removed the product from all of its stores. Getty Images It's after they received a scathing letter from Mr Lucraft, which read: “I assume that with some past incidents that I see have happened with Primark goods, you are anxious to prevent further bad publicity, and do not want to offend other shoppers. “I can see that your website is strong on corporate responsibility so I hope you will take this t-shirt off sale immediately.” A spokesman for Primark said: “The t-shirt in question is licensed merchandise for the U.S. Television series, The Walking Dead, and the quote and image are taken directly from the show. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. 'The Sun', 'Sun', 'Sun Online' are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.
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