December 22, 2004
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D'oh
The electoral college vote results are in!
George W. Bush, 286 votes
John F. Kerry, 220 votes
John L. Kerry, 31 votes
John Edwards, 1 vote
The New York voters voted correctly; the
certificate was in error and will be corrected. On the Minnesota
ballot, one of the voters really did vote for Edwards (actual vote: "Ewards"), apparently by
mistake. But no one will admit to having done it, and the vote stands.When I was in high school, pranksters used to write in votes for
Scooby-Doo for student council. It was juvenile back then. But if I
were an electoral college voter and my guy were going to lose anyway, I
think that it would be kinda cool to write-in a presidential vote for Frodo, or Superman, or
Eminem. Or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Comments (4)
Go ahead, throw your vote away. Three of your candidates are not natural-born US citizens, and the fourth is under 35.
This, from a man who wrote in a vote for Joe Lieberman for president this year?
Yes, my choices were a little ridiculous. But I was only kidding!
That last paragraph had a certain John Handey feel to it--was it intentional?
You mean the old SNL gag, right? Now that you point it out, I can see the resemblance: the wistful memory of earlier years, the incisive writing, the audience of millions. But no, it wasn't intentional.
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