Have Scary Election Scenarios Increased?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By NANCY BENAC, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Despite all the vows of "never again" after the Florida fiasco of 2000, the scary scenarios for Election Day 2004 seem only to have increased: A tie vote in the Electoral College. A terrorist strike on Election Day. A disputed outcome in a critical state.


"When we talk about it around here, we just sigh," says Walter Berns, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and an expert on the Electoral College. "I just hope it's a clear victory so we don't have Florida all over again all over the place."


With the electorate sharply divided, the chance of a deadlock in the Electoral College seems all the more real this time after the long-in-limbo outcome of 2000. The National Archives offers an "Electoral College calculator" on its Web site so armchair prognosticators can see just how easy it could be to have the candidates come out even.


For example, if just New Hampshire and Nevada (or West Virginia) shifted from favoring Bush to the Democrats this time, there could be a 269-269 tie, leaving it to the House to pick the next president and the Senate to pick the new vice president come January.

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[Doctor_J]

1. i think the fix is in

you saw the debates. there is no way the electorate will vote this guy into office. the only question will be, how violently will we react to being robbed again? My prediction: it will be much like 2000 - we just grimace and accept it. again. Frankly, with no media presence, our power is pretty limited.

[bobbieinok]

2. Am Enterprise Inst worried?????you've got to be kidding!!!!!

thy're worried that their plans to steal the election for W will be revealed

IMO, the repubs messed up in FL in 2000.....it was not supposed to be close......there was not supposed to be any exmination of the vote

Malloy talked abt GA in 2002 on Wed........dems leading for gov and senate by double digits the day before the election.....repubs won by double digits ........100% Diebold boting machines.....a few people suspicious, but not close enuff to examine