Clinton, Please Reject the Arizona Result

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Wednesday March 23, 2016 · 7:19 PM PDT

2016/03/23 · 19:19

It is the middle of November 2016, let’s say.

The election has ended in a quandary worse than in 2000, because there are now three states with unacceptably warped results: Ohio, Arizona, Florida.

The Supreme Court still has four Republicans and four Justices. The Secretaries of State of Ohio and Florida and Arizona are guests of Jeb Bush in Miami.

What standard will prevail then? What force of law, what tradition will prevail?

It is time, now when it will cost so little to your campaign to get all the votes voted, to establish that the right to vote is not some smaller right to run a gamut and then maybe vote, provided your records have not been molested by paid consultants and the ballot has not been designed by professional click-bait artists.

It is time to ensure the legitimate transfer of power.

This is the standard: Systematically depriving citizens of the opportunity to vote prevents every candidate from winning.

Yesterday’s results from Arizona are unacceptable, in the solid meaning of that term. This is not the occasion for consoling commentary and a blue-ribbon committee. Not a call to handwringing and ceremony.

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