26-04-2003 04:04									#1
	Bush may not be on Alabama ballot in 2004 Full PM-box? Change here!

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS...t.ap/index.html

quote: MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- Unless Alabama's election law is changed, there could be one notable candidate missing from the state's 2004 presidential election ballot -- President Bush. The problem is that the Republican National Convention is being held later than usual to avoid conflict with the Olympics, and the GOP won't choose a candidate until September 2 -- two days after Alabama's August 31 deadline to certify presidential contenders. Republicans are asking the Democrat-controlled Legislature to change the law and extend the deadline until September 5.

After the Florida debacle, it'd be interesting to see what happens if all the Republicans there have to vote him in as a writein.

	26-04-2003 06:32									#2
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

i find it amusing.

alabama would definitely go for bush, since it has a tendency to vote republican for national elections along with most of the south...

	26-04-2003 11:08									#3
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

If this election is as close as the last one, he will need Alabama

	26-04-2003 11:19									#4
	Remove this text

I guess in Alabama you can't count on wright ins, seeing as the can't wright... like most of us here at poly.

Any way: Oh no Alabama!!!

	26-04-2003 11:22									#5
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

Avoid conflicts with the Olympics? I am glad these people have all their priorities straighten out.

	26-04-2003 11:25									#6
	Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

Well if they held it during the Olympics they wouldn't get the same network coverage.

After all, it is just a political convention.

	26-04-2003 13:03									#7
	Browse Apolyton AD-FREE

You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

	26-04-2003 22:08									#8
	Full PM-box? Change here!

Not here, not here .

	26-04-2003 22:18									#9
	Increase the size of your Attachments

quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

Where ?

	27-04-2003 02:50									#10
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

"Debates"?

Rings a bell... weren't those outlawed in the Patriot Act?

	27-04-2003 12:54									#11
	Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

quote: Originally posted by Spiffor Where ?

Europe for a start...

	27-04-2003 12:57									#12
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed You know, in some countries Political conventions include "debates" where the delegates set "policy".

We prefer to throw drunken orgies at our conventions.

	27-04-2003 16:44									#13
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization 2

Oh, that happens too.

	27-04-2003 18:44									#14
	Support Apolyton, buy Galactic Civilizations: Deluxe Edition

quote: Originally posted by Taz Europe for a start...

Europe is a country? :looks at Atlas:

	27-04-2003 18:48									#15
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

I wish Bush would get on a ballot somewhere where I could vote against the bastard.

	28-04-2003 03:21									#16
	Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

Uh, guys, this isn't good. If Bush isn't on the ballot, Alabama might vote for Buchannan or that Libertarian nutter.

	29-04-2003 09:25									#17
	Sorry to disappoint you leftists Full PM-box? Change here!

If you lot can skate around New Jersey's laws about replacing candidates, thereby replacing Torricelli the crook with Lautenberg, then Bush can certainly be on the ballot in Alabama. The Repubs still have a year and a half to fix this anyway

	29-04-2003 09:38									#18
	Inflate your Upload Space

Yeah, they got around the whole Bush and Cheney being from the same state problem. (They're both Texan and the Constitution forbids a state's electors for voting for both a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate from their own state. That Cheney moved to Wyoming a few months before the election was no coincidence.)

	29-04-2003 09:42									#19
	Support Apolyton, pre-order Civilization IV

holywarrior, nobody likes you

	29-04-2003 09:51									#20
	Inflate your Upload Space

coming from you, that's a compliment.

	29-04-2003 10:10									#21
	Increase the size of your Attachments

Actually, I rather like the comparison with New Jersey.

If you can't take the heat...

	29-04-2003 11:14									#22
	Support Apolyton, buy Civilization: The Boardgame

quote: Yeah, they got around the whole Bush and Cheney being from the same state problem. (They're both Texan and the Constitution forbids a state's electors for voting for both a Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate from their own state. That Cheney moved to Wyoming a few months before the election was no coincidence.)

It isn't like Cheney has no ties to Wyoming . He has always had a house there, he was born and raised there, went to school there, and representated the state in Congress.

And where were you when Hillary Clinton moved to New York a few months before her election to the US Senate .

	29-04-2003 11:25									#23
	Got spare money?

How is that relevant? If the state law is going to allow her to run for state office, then so be it, but Cheney circumvented the Constitution to get into national office. I'm not implying I support the constitution or anything like that, I'm just bringing up a point.

	29-04-2003 11:27									#24
	Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

quote: Cheney circumvented the Constitution to get into national office

Bullshit! If Cheney moved a few months BEFORE the election, the electors would not be able to vote for a President and VP from their own state, because Cheney had already moved and changed his residency before the elections.

	29-04-2003 11:39									#25
	Support Apolyton, buy Alpha Centauri

I'm saying he moved specifically to get around this requirement. My point was that laws can't stop a politician given a few months to work with.

	29-04-2003 11:43									#26
	Remove this text

quote: I'm saying he moved specifically to get around this requirement.

You said he circumvented the Constitution to get to national office...

	29-04-2003 11:53									#27
	Put an end to popups!

Well had he not moved to Wyoming he could not have been elected. I didn't mean he did so in an illegal fashion, he got around it by moving to Wyoming.

quote: cir·cum·vent (sūrkm-vnt) tr.v. cir·cum·vent·ed, cir·cum·vent·ing, cir·cum·vents To surround (an enemy, for example); enclose or entrap. To go around; bypass: circumvented the city. To avoid or get around by artful maneuvering: She planned a way to circumvent all the bureaucratic red tape.

edit: fixed quote tag
edit2: circumvented stupid censoring filter
edit3: fixed a bold tag

By circumvent, I mean it in the literal sense: go around. No more, no less.

	29-04-2003 12:04									#28
	Get a bigger avatar today!

Ah, well knowing you, I assumed you meant it in a nefarious sense .

	29-04-2003 12:20									#29
	Inflate your Upload Space

quote: Originally posted by Japher I guess in Alabama you can't count on wright ins, seeing as the can't wright... like most of us here at poly.

(I am assuming this was deliberate )

	29-04-2003 12:26									#30
	Remove this text

quote: Ah, well knowing you, I assumed you meant it in a nefarious sense .

-Well, I suppose I meant it to be vague enough to be interpretible that way yet defensible should someone question it To be honest, it's late and it's finals week, I'm not exactly at the peak of mental clarity right now. I just feel a strange desire to post rather than study