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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Nader: 'Cowering' Democrats face defeat [View all]PDittie
(8,322 posts)I make no defense of LePore, but I think attacking her apparently nefarious motivations for the butterfly ballot are just laughable.
It was a poor design made worse by a serious case of Murphy's Law. That's as far as a reasonable person could go.
A far better scapegoat would be to blame all those county elections officials throughout the state for supplying poorer precincts with ballot boxes filled over with chads, which ultimately disenfranchised thousands of minority voters.
Yes there was chaos surrounding the recounting which the Republicans made hay of, to sa nothing of the state and federal court challenges stopping and restarting.
That was just barely an unintended consequence (not the reactions but the circumstances). Not as bad as Choicepoint's caging of voters with names similar to felons, however...
See, there are so many areas to legitimately place blame that I don't get why people without a grudge or a bias have to single out Nader or LePore. I suppose it's just too easy.