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Thursday, January 06, 2005
The Party of Irrelevance
Fox News ia reporting this morning that Senator Barbara Boxer (D. Cal) is going to formally protest the Ohio election results. Several Representatives (Conyers (D-MI) and Jackson (D- IL) to name two) have already stated that they will also protest the results.
What does this mean, technically? Congress will be meeting in a joint session today. Once this objection is raised, they will split into their separate Houses, and there will be up to 2 hours of debate. Nothing will come of it because there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Ohio or anywhere else (with the possible exception of Washington.) Then, once they have satisfied this last ditch effort to get 37 seconds of additional drama concerning this election, the results will be ratified.
What I find interesting is that John Kerry (D-Mass) isn't even going to protest the results. He's not even going to be in the country for the vote. Nice to know he's not changing his Senate voting habits now that he's not running for President anymore.
What does this mean, technically? Congress will be meeting in a joint session today. Once this objection is raised, they will split into their separate Houses, and there will be up to 2 hours of debate. Nothing will come of it because there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in Ohio or anywhere else (with the possible exception of Washington.) Then, once they have satisfied this last ditch effort to get 37 seconds of additional drama concerning this election, the results will be ratified.
What I find interesting is that John Kerry (D-Mass) isn't even going to protest the results. He's not even going to be in the country for the vote. Nice to know he's not changing his Senate voting habits now that he's not running for President anymore.
