[extropy-chat] Aw Nuts! Bush Wins...

[Samantha Atkins]

Well, maybe we can blame the huge predominance of untested voting
machines.   Neither I nor anyone else has any way of knowing how much
rigging was done there.  They certainly are not proven to be fair and
accurate.

On the other hand if I was rigging machines I would have rigged in a
much better margin that what eventually occurred.   But perhaps the
hypothetical riggers simply misjudged how much was needed.

Perhaps.

I just hope the Shrub doesn't start mouthing off about a "mandate from
the people".  I don't think I can take it.

- s


On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:17:43 +0100, Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> 
> I am so disappointed. How could Bush win the popular vote? I don't
> understand this; no one I spoke with here understands it either. Also,
> I suspect it won't be easy for Americans with nonAmericans in the future.
> I heard often in the last years that 'Americans simply made a
> mistake',with regards to the Bush administration, and so they cleanly
> separated the American people from their government, and expected the
> Americans to 'set things right' in this election. Now Americans will be
> much more closely aligned with their government in the eyes of many in
> the world.
> 
> On a more personal note, as a holder of a US and Latvian passport, the
> shift in these last years is that I only use my US passport when I
> travel to the US, because the "baggage" of the US government is not
> something I like to carry in my dealings with people in my everyday
> life. I never had a good answer when someone  wants to know where I am
> "from" (Hawaii, Wisconsin, California, Colorado, Latvia, Germany, Greece
> all fit to some degree, but California the most). Unfortunately my
> Italian paperwork lists US as my citizenship, so I'm illegal for the
> last year, with an expired permit-of-stay, grouped with Australians,
> New Zealanders, Canadians, Japanese, Africans, South Americans.... (the
> nonEU world) who are in a quagmire in the collapsed Italian Bossi-Fini
> immigration law. Therefore, given the US political situation now, I will
> begin to shift my Italian bureaucratic papers to my Latvian citizenship
> (even with Italy's new restrictions on the new EU member countries),
> since I think that holding a US passport will mostly hurt me now.
> 
> Amara
> 
> --
> 
> Amara Graps, PhD
> Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario (IFSI)
> Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF),
> Adjunct Assistant Professor Astronomy, AUR,
> Roma, ITALIA     Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it
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