Ross Reynolds will be talking with Secretary of State Sam Reed and Rep. Sam Hunt sometime between 12:20 and 12:40 PM today on KUOW’s The Conversation, about the ballot deadline debate, and since I’ve been covering it so obsessively they’re gonna give me a couple minutes to respond before going to the phones.
I’ll have updated data to share with readers and listeners at that time.
UPDATE:
Well, for whatever reason, they didn’t get to me, which is too bad because Sam Reed was wrong or misleading on several facts.
Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.
Is Hunt with Reed or against him?
N in Seattle,
Shouldn’t that be: “Is Hunt with Reed or is he with the terrorists?”
I stand corrected, Darryl.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
I believe it was Churchill who said democracy is a terrible form of government but all the alternatives are much worse.
Basic Point: This is a “solution” in search of a problem.
Most voters don’t care if it takes a week to tally the votes. Only the politicians care – they want to have their big party on election night and then go home to sleep it off.
The universal right to vote imposes upon the government the duty to educate it’s citizens so they can be informed and knowledgable voters. Attacks on public education are an attempt to influence the vote by disarming the least advantaged of the elctorate from the tools they need to intelligently make decisions.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
“People in general just rub my ass raw.”
H.L. Mencken
Turns out ACORN is filing suit to have the ridiculous “Defund ACORN Act” that cuts off their funding struck down as an unconstitutional bill of attainder. I think they have a pretty good case, seeing how, even before Congress passed the Act, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service warned in a written report that singling out ACORN “may well” may well be unconstitutional. And of course, in introducing the bill, Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) declared on the floor of the Senate: “Somebody has to go after ACORN. Well, I suggest today, on the floor of the Senate, that ‘somebody’ is each and every U.S. Senator.”
Define “bill of attainder:” A legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial.
The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 9, paragraph 3 provides that: “No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed.” As William Rehnquist wrote in his book The Supreme Court, “A bill of attainder was a legislative act that singled out one or more persons and imposed punishment on them, without benefit of trial. Such actions were regarded as odious by the framers of the Constitution because it was the traditional role of a court, judging an individual case, to impose punishment.”