Another political post
I got sent a link to one more set of maps today, showing the land mass distorted in order to reflect the population. I find them harder to interpret than some of the others, but fascinating — a rorschach test of sorts.
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I’ve been hearing a lot from people claiming election fraud. One of my basic principles for dealing with the world is not to assume sophisticated conspiracies when human error and incompetence work equally well as explanations. But even if it didn’t affect the final results (and I don’t think it did), it’s still worth investigating and figuring out exactly what did or didn’t happen — in order to prevent the same errors next time and in order to restore confidence in the system. And Republicans ought to be demanding these investigations as loudly as — if not more loudly than — Democrats.
The organization that seems to be the focus of these efforts is http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ (NOT .com) As of 9.30 tonight, this site isn’t responding — maybe it’s just a random outage, or maybe it’s been the subject of some sort of denial of service attack. Given that www.electoral-vote.com was continually under attack during the campaign, it doesn’t seem implausible.
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We’re fighting hard in Fallujah. I’m praying for the safety of our soldiers, and also for the innocent bystanders who will inevitably suffer. I wish it weren’t so obvious that the Administration was just waiting until after the election to go in.
November 9th, 2004 at 10:15 pm
Hey, got one more map for you. Wonkette (http://www.wonkette.com/archives/a-country-of-mapmakers-ii-025272.php) has one with each state shaded vertically red/blue based on vote percentage. Did they have this many maps after the 2000 election?
On the much more serious topic of Fullujah… ditto your sentiments, and prayers. My brother is an Army officer and was supposed to be deployed last month for his 2nd tour in Iraq. His unit’s orders were put on hold though, so he’s still stateside… for now. Praying for peace….