That's what Jeb Bush wants to know.
The Florida Election Canvassing Commission (consisting of Governor Jeb Bush, Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher, and State Senator Daniel Webster) and Secretary of State Sue Cobb have resorted to a baseless line of questioning that attacks the integrity of the 11 voter plaintiffs who experienced problems with Sarasota County’s electronic voting machines.
...the State Defendants demand answers to the following questions:
- Do you wear glasses, contact lenses, or hearing aids? If so, who prescribed them, when were they prescribed...and what is the name and address of the examiner?
- "Did you consume any alcoholic beverages or take any drugs (prescribed or not) or medications within 12 hours before the time you voted in the November 2006 general election? If so, state the type and amount of alcoholic beverages, drugs (prescribed or not), or medication which were consumed, and when and where you consumed them."
So it comes to this: in order to protect his political ally and aid in the theft of a Congressional seat, Jeb Bush wants to know if you tried to vote on drugs.
And as plausible as 18,400 drunk and blind stoners forgetting how to use a touchscreen seems, for some reason I'm just not buying it.
You know, I think that the part of this whole nightmare that most offends me as a citizen is not the part where the right to vote is stripped from my neighbors, nor the part where a tax-dodging used car salesman riding a wave of sanctimony uses a error-strewn election to lecture us about the "will of the people." No, I think I'm most pissed off by the sheer tonnage of disrespect and condescension being heaped on the victims of this screw-up.
Jeb Bush, who campaigned heavily for Buchanan and is featured prominently on Buchanan's endorsements list, wants to insinuate that voters who sufferend machine errors were either drunk or stoned, and is rushing to use a flawed and biased audit as 'evidence' that the machines didn't fail.
Vern Buchanan calls 18,400 missing votes, as close to a statistical impossibility as any electoral result I can think of, the "myth of the undervote."
Hell, even on this site the undervote is being shrugged off by some as "our voters being too numb to follow simple instructions."
Well, I'm sick of the insults, and I'm sick of the condescension, and I'm sick of the self-righteousness that flies in the face of truth. Votes have been erased, and a seat is being stolen.
Please write your representatives, and if you can please contribute via ActBlue to help us keep up the fight for Sarasota's voters. Our rights are all threatened by this, and while the Republicans would rather blame the victims, it's our duty to do what we can to help them.
Help the victims--Support Christine Jennings!
-JR Lentini
Blogosphere Outreach Coordinator
Christine Jennings for Congress