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Has your vote ever made a difference.
    #1944464 - 09/23/03 01:18 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)


Has your vote ever made a difference?
Yes, there was a difference between the winning side and losing side of one vote. If I changed my vote there would have been a different winner.

Yes, there was a difference between the winning side and losing side of two votes. If I changed my vote there would have been a tie.

Yes, if I would have abstained from voting, the results would have favored another outcome.

Yes, a combination of the above three options are true.

No, a change in my vote or an abstention would never have altered the outcome.



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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: Autonomous]
    #1944471 - 09/23/03 01:19 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

In 2000, I voted with the majority, and that candidate still ended up losing.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1944885 - 09/23/03 03:07 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Wahhhhhhh.

Get the fuck over it. The election was won by the rules in place at the time. Matter of fact, those rules have worked just fine for well over 200 years.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945042 - 09/23/03 03:56 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Ya, I'm sure that it's just coincidence that Bush had those friends on the Supreme Court and that his brother was governor of the state where the whole fiasco took place.  How silly of me to think that in a democracy, the will of the people should be respected. :smirk:


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945069 - 09/23/03 04:03 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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How silly of me to think that in a democracy, the will of the people should be respected.



Silly is not the word I would have chosen.

The Constitution trumps all. Including the will of the people.

Or did your professor tell you differently?

Edit: And by the way, I would think you'd be smart enough to at least know the US is NOT, and never was, nor was it meant to be, a democracy.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945075 - 09/23/03 04:06 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Are you referring to Florida's State Constitution, which the Florida Supreme Court had the power to interpret? Cuz I don't recall anything in the US Constitution about recount deadlines. Refresh my memory.

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Edit: And by the way, I would think you'd be smart enough to at least know the US is NOT, and never was, nor was it meant to be, a democracy.



But it IS supposed to be a Democratic Republic, meaning that it's governed by democratic principles.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945092 - 09/23/03 04:12 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

We've gone over this before. There are federal election laws. The election was for a federal office. Feds trump.

Wrong again.... it's a Constitutionally Limited Republic.

Perhaps a change of schools is in order.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945101 - 09/23/03 04:13 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Here is a nice link on the subject. This isn't the first time the popular vote did not win the election.

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3425.html

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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945109 - 09/23/03 04:15 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Obviously, since the decision was decided by one vote in the Supreme Court, then at least 4 out of 9 justices whose job it is to interpret the Constitution thought the decision went against the Constitution. It's not as if the Constitution clearly stated that this would be the correct decision. But I'm sure you think you know the Constitution better than all of them.

Anyway, I think we've derailed this thread enough by now.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: shakta]
    #1945116 - 09/23/03 04:17 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

call me crazy but I think the candidate who gets the most votes should win.

abolish the electoral college.

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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: infidelGOD]
    #1945122 - 09/23/03 04:18 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

^^^I agree. The electoral college is a joke in this day and age.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945125 - 09/23/03 04:19 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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But I'm sure you think you know the Constitution better than all of them.



In this case..... just four of them.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945130 - 09/23/03 04:21 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Wow, what law school did you go to? :smirk:


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945132 - 09/23/03 04:23 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

It's necessary to go to law school to understand something?

So when you rant about unjust laws, you're speaking with a diploma to back you up?


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945154 - 09/23/03 04:29 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

My point is that they've studied it in greater depth than you have. Granted, there are 5 of them on that court that agree with you, as opposed to 4 of them that agree with me, but you act as if the meaning of the Constitution is self-apparent(in you case, you seem to interpret it as whatever suits your Conservative views). All I'm saying is that it's a lot more vague and open to interpretation than you'd like to believe. If it weren't, we wouldn't need a Supreme Court.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945159 - 09/23/03 04:32 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Well man, that is the way the system was set up to work. Those are the facts. As long as a majority of the court says this is Constitutional, that is the end of the story. I don't like the electoral college at all really. As long as our legislature does not make it a priority it will not change.

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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: shakta]
    #1945175 - 09/23/03 04:35 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

I know. I can't really say the Supreme Court's decision was unconstitutional, because by definition, it can't be. I think it was a case of judicial activism, but I'm not gonna live in the past. Besides, I probably wouldn't mind so much if Bush wasn't such a lousy president. My priority now is getting Bush out of office in the next election.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945184 - 09/23/03 04:37 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Granted, there are 5 of them on that court that agree with you, as opposed to 4 of them that agree with me



Actually, it was a 7 - 2 vote to overturn the Florida court.
7 - 2


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in you case, you seem to interpret it as whatever suits your Conservative views



Actually my views are Libertarian. You're not doing so well today.


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All I'm saying is that it's a lot more vague and open to interpretation than you'd like to believe.



It's fairly obvious you don't know what I believe. I believe in the written word and when doubt arises as to the written words in the constitution I turn to the Federalist Papers where it's explained in fairly straight-forward terms.



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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945192 - 09/23/03 04:40 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Just thought you might like to know that the Federalist papers are not a part of our laws, and are basically just the party platform of a political party that no longer exists(the Federalists).


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945200 - 09/23/03 04:42 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Who wrote them? For the most part, the same people who wrote the Constitution.

I'll repeat an earlier comment...

Get your tuition money back. You got screwed.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945217 - 09/23/03 04:45 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

First of all, this has nothing to do with any of my professors. Secondly, the Constitution was a work of COMPROMISE between the Federalists(who, by the way, wanted a stronger federal government, which I thought you opposed) and the Jeffersonian Republicans(as opposed to modern-day Republicans). It also sought to compromise between big states and small states, which is how they came up with the electoral system.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945254 - 09/23/03 04:53 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Professors, teachers... whatever. The point is you seem to know little about the process of electing the president other than.... "it wasn't fair.

It was fair. It was run by the rules in place at the time. It was decided by a 7 - 2 vote, not a 5 - 4 vote as you claim.

You don't even know what type of government we have.

You don't seem to know that Federal Law trumps state law.

If it's not your professors that let you down so miserably, then it was your teachers in the other grades.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945305 - 09/23/03 05:11 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Professors, teachers... whatever. The point is you seem to know little about the process of electing the president other than.... "it wasn't fair.



Call me crazy, but in an election, which is a DEMOCRATIC process, even if we don't live in a pure democracy, the will of the people voting should be respected. It's only fair. Whether or not it's Constitutional is another matter.

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It was fair. It was run by the rules in place at the time. It was decided by a 7 - 2 vote, not a 5 - 4 vote as you claim.



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You don't even know what type of government we have.



Sure I do. We live in a Constitutional Republic based on Democratic principles.

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You don't seem to know that Federal Law trumps state law.



So what happened to this thing called "State's Rights"?

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If it's not your professors that let you down so miserably, then it was your teachers in the other grades.



I think you need to go back to school.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945330 - 09/23/03 05:18 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Crazy? No. Just someone who doesn't like the way elections are set out. To that I have two things to say....
1. Get over it.
2. Too fucking bad.


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The court agreed 7-2, with Souter and Breyer joining the majority, that the differing standards for conducting the recount created an equal-protection problem. But the remedy, they said, was to conduct a new recount with proper standards.



From your link. You must have stopped as soon as you saw the number you liked.



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Sure I do. We live in a Constitutional Republic based on Democratic principles.



Wrong yet again. It's a Constitutionally Limited Republic.



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So what happened to this thing called "State's Rights"?




In the case of a Federal Election, federal law trumps. Do I really need to keep repeating that or are you going to get it eventually?



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I think you need to go back to school.



There you go again being wrong. It appears I have a much better grasp on this subject than you do.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: Autonomous]
    #1945350 - 09/23/03 05:24 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

In my case.... no.


In these cases , yes.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945351 - 09/23/03 05:25 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Crazy? No. Just someone who doesn't like the way elections are set out. To that I have two things to say....
1. Get over it.
2. Too fucking bad.



Well, there goes the whole idea of political activism.


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The court agreed 7-2, with Souter and Breyer joining the majority, that the differing standards for conducting the recount created an equal-protection problem. But the remedy, they said, was to conduct a new recount with proper standards.



From your link. You must have stopped as soon as you saw the number you liked.



"A 5-4 majority said there was no time to conduct a lawful recount. "
Also from my link


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Sure I do. We live in a Constitutional Republic based on Democratic principles.



Wrong yet again. It's a Constitutionally Limited Republic.



Are you saying it's NOT based on democratic principles? Then let me ask you this: WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE ELECTIONS?!


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So what happened to this thing called "State's Rights"?




In the case of a Federal Election, federal law trumps. Do I really need to keep repeating that or are you going to get it eventually?



Show me the federal law that says the recount had to stop. From what I gathered, the whole decision was based on the equal protection clause, and that's a rather unique interpretation of that clause.


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I think you need to go back to school.



There you go again being wrong. It appears I have a much better grasp on this subject than you do.



No, you're just more of an asshole about it.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945428 - 09/23/03 05:46 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Well, there goes the whole idea of political activism.



Wrong again. Use your political activism to change the system if you don't like it. Political activism will have no effect on an election in the past. So, too fucking bad, get over it.



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"A 5-4 majority said there was no time to conduct a lawful recount. " Also from my link



No shit? That's why I said "as soon as you saw a number you like". I'm well aware there are two numbers on that page.



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Are you saying it's NOT based on democratic principles? Then let me ask you this: WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE ELECTIONS?!



Having a bad day? I never said that the principles of democracy are not involved at all. You claimed at first it's a democracy, then you claimed it's a constitutional republic. I merely pointed out you are incorrect in both descriptions. Once again, it's a Constitutionally Limited Republic.



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Show me the federal law that says the recount had to stop. From what I gathered, the whole decision was based on the equal protection clause, and that's a rather unique interpretation of that clause.



I'm sure you can find the law on your own If you fail at that as well let me know. The electors are to be named by a certain date. ( I took it easy on you in this case, here you go)
" December 12 [Pursuant to the U.S. Constitution and federal law]

The deadline for the legislature of any state to appoint its own slate of Electors immune from challenge in the U.S. Congress ["safe harbor" provision]. Electors appointed after that date would no longer receive immunity. The ultimate authority for the manner in which Electors are appointed is vested in the state legislature by the U.S. Constitution, Article II, sec. 1, cl. 2. The date for certification of the electors is established by federal law. "

Now, since election law does not appear to be your forte, I'll ask another question, and answer it for you.

What happens if the electors are not certified by the selected date? The legislature from the state in question (Florida) selects them. Who was in control of the legislature? The Republicans. Who would the electors they picked most likely have selected as President? You take this one. I bet you can get it.



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No, you're just more of an asshole about it.



While that could be taken as a flame, I'd say he who can't admit he's wrong is the bigger one. Since the shoe fits you so very well, you wear it.

Now please, this is getting ridiculous. There's no shame in admitting you're wrong. I grow weary of kicking you while you're down. So unless you have something new to add, backed up by facts and links, I'm done.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945547 - 09/23/03 06:17 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Well, there goes the whole idea of political activism.



Wrong again. Use your political activism to change the system if you don't like it. Political activism will have no effect on an election in the past. So, too fucking bad, get over it.



Who's trying to change the past? I'm certainly not.


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Are you saying it's NOT based on democratic principles? Then let me ask you this: WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE ELECTIONS?!



Having a bad day? I never said that the principles of democracy are not involved at all. You claimed at first it's a democracy, then you claimed it's a constitutional republic. I merely pointed out you are incorrect in both descriptions. Once again, it's a Constitutionally Limited Republic.



Constitutional Republic. Constitutionally Limited Republic. Same shit.


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No, you're just more of an asshole about it.



While that could be taken as a flame, I'd say he who can't admit he's wrong is the bigger one. Since the shoe fits you so very well, you wear it.

Now please, this is getting ridiculous. There's no shame in admitting you're wrong. I grow weary of kicking you while you're down. So unless you have something new to add, backed up by facts and links, I'm done.



That was a flame, and I'm sorry. Your arrogance struck a nerve with me and I let anger get the best of me. My statement, however correct, was inappropriate. For that, I was wrong. I would not consider myself wrong in believing that a system in which the will of people is not recognized should be changed. I'm glad you're done here, because I think we've derailed the thread way too much.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945575 - 09/23/03 06:26 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

I was hoping you'd give up with being wrong for tonight. Since you seem unable to do so, I'll help you out yet again

A Constitutional Republic is one that uses a constitution to say what they can do.

A Constitutionally Limited Republic uses a constitution to limit what can be done.

Key word being LIMIT.

Now please, I'm begging you. Quit. You don't even have to admit you're wrong. It's obvious enough.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945596 - 09/23/03 06:32 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

*impression of LuvDemShittyDebateSkills debate tactics*

"I'm wrong and your right.Why? Because I said so. Now admit that you were wrong. (insert pseudo-flame) Having a bad day,fella? :lol:


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: monoamine]
    #1945608 - 09/23/03 06:35 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

monoamine said:
*impression of LuvDemShittyDebateSkills debate tactics*

"I'm wrong and your right.Why? Because I said so. Now admit that you were wrong. (insert pseudo-flame) Having a bad day,fella? :lol:



Care to show me where I didn't back up my statements? Or are you just going to ba a *pre-edited for Rono*?


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945744 - 09/23/03 07:15 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Quote:

Your arrogance struck a nerve with me and I let anger get the best of me.



You know what silversoul? After a post-dinner re-read... You're right. My tone sucked ass.


You have my sincere apology.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #1945798 - 09/23/03 07:30 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

And you have mine as well. Now, let's get back on-topic and put this qubbling behind us.


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Re: Has your vote ever made a difference. [Re: silversoul7]
    #1945823 - 09/23/03 07:37 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Well no,I've never voted since I was too young,but my future votes will make a difference-just an extremely tiny one,like 1 in several million.

I can't stand people that can't vote.Jesus,you can't take 15 minutes of your T.V. watching time to pull a freaking lever or punch some holes?

My local voting place is less than a half mile away. I took my grandma to vote,and I timed it and we were there and back home in less than ten minutes.


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