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Nov. 9th, 2005 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingAmerican "election" results!
Anywhere Bush campaigned in favour of someone or something, it was voted down or out by a large majority. This includes two traditionally Republican governorships in "red states".
In California, Schwarzennegger's proposals, including one to shift the power to gerrymander into the hands of Republicans, were all rejected. In Ohio, one of the same proposals to shift gerrymandering away from Republicans was rejected.
Also in Ohio, proposals to make the state's election counting system accountable, verifiable, and more difficult to tamper with were unsurprisingly "voted" down.
Maine added protection for homosexuals from discrimination to their constitution, and Texas banned marriage. *All* marriage - the State Constitution now prohibits Texas from recognising *any* marriage or similiar institution, regardless of where it was performed or what other States do. This does, for those keeping score at home, violate the *real* Constitution.
Oh, yeah: and in Dover, PA, the local school board was up for election. In a 100% clean sweep, the current board was voted out and a board whose sole campaign point was that "Intelligent Design" would not be taught as equal to evolution, and would, instead, be made an optional Comparative Religions course, was voted in.
Anywhere Bush campaigned in favour of someone or something, it was voted down or out by a large majority. This includes two traditionally Republican governorships in "red states".
In California, Schwarzennegger's proposals, including one to shift the power to gerrymander into the hands of Republicans, were all rejected. In Ohio, one of the same proposals to shift gerrymandering away from Republicans was rejected.
Also in Ohio, proposals to make the state's election counting system accountable, verifiable, and more difficult to tamper with were unsurprisingly "voted" down.
Maine added protection for homosexuals from discrimination to their constitution, and Texas banned marriage. *All* marriage - the State Constitution now prohibits Texas from recognising *any* marriage or similiar institution, regardless of where it was performed or what other States do. This does, for those keeping score at home, violate the *real* Constitution.
Oh, yeah: and in Dover, PA, the local school board was up for election. In a 100% clean sweep, the current board was voted out and a board whose sole campaign point was that "Intelligent Design" would not be taught as equal to evolution, and would, instead, be made an optional Comparative Religions course, was voted in.
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Date: 2005-11-09 01:25 pm (UTC)Who gets to decide who gets to be on the committees? The people already in charge. Corrupt Republicans. And the committees would be accountable to no one - we can't vote appointees out.
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Date: 2005-11-09 04:00 pm (UTC)I have absolutely no reason to believe, for one second, that my vote was counted accurately.
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Date: 2005-11-10 05:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-09 03:45 pm (UTC)*little, bitter snicker* I'd be snickering more, but you know.
Can't wait until that is challenged somewhere, if it can be challenged. Still not sure how these state constitution works.
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Date: 2005-11-09 04:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-09 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-10 05:53 pm (UTC)Just you wait. Eventually, there will be a federal law or court decision that says states must offer the same legal benefits to same-sex couples as they do to opposite-sex couples. At that point, I fully expect at least one of the conservative states to abolish marriage, rather than give rights to those dirty homos.