Maybe it's too late, but has anyone considered a recall election?

[LearnedHand]

I just keep thinking that impeachment might take too long, and doing nothing might leave our democracy in smoking ruins. Isn't there a mechanism for national recall election? How would it work, I wonder?

On edit: Needless to say, I'm talking about * and Darth Cheney.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. There is no such thing at the presidential level.

Unfortunately.

[LearnedHand]

2. Rats! I was afraid of that.

Wishful thinking, I guess.

[AshevilleGuy]

3. Too bad we do not have parliamentary form of government,

Prime Minister Bush would have failed a no confidence vote LONG ago, and the Dems would have been asked to form a government. I wonder who our figurehead president would be???

[LearnedHand]

5. Duh. Bill Clinton n/t

[MissWaverly]

4. There ought to be

and how valid were the Ohio results when the State of Ohio admitted the recount
was rigged.

[LearnedHand]

6. Exactly

It's as if they broke ALL the rules and dared us to stop them. And we blinked. And we dissembled. And we shuffled our feet and stared at the ground.

[MissWaverly]

7. Hey, here in Maryland, it was an obivious steal

I posted it on here at the time, fishy results in Baltimore, Here are some stats
that I kept at the time from 2004 election here in Maryland.

My humble statistics from no math whiz!
Kerry won with 1,334,493 which is a lead of only 309,790 in Maryland
Bush had 1,024,703
Here's why it is BS, these are registered voters who voted in the entire STATE of MARYLAND
1,340,778 78.89% of registered Dems voted
733,643 81.37% of registered Republicans voted
5,415 72.36% of registered Greens voted
16,182 67.39% of registered Libs voted
236 79.73% of registered Constitution party voted???
8 72.73% of registered Populists voted
299,529 68.52% of registered Independents voted

Results from Baltimore County
data is from the Baltimore County election summary
in Baltimore county (Diebold machines), it gets more interesting.
Bush 166,051 (46.98%) with 1,089 blank votes for prez
Kerry 182,474 (51.62%)
Mikulski (dem senator) 217,688 (62.72%)
C.J. Pipkin (rep challenger for sen) 124,092 (35.75%)
blank votes for senate race 7,498
US congress (2)
C.A. Ruppersberger (Dem) 96,723 (65.77%)
Jane Brooks (Rep) 46,236 (31.44%)
with blank votes of 7,447
Now you see that Bush consistently receives a higher percentage of the votes than the Republican challengers and in Baltimore County, not only are candidates not riding Bush's coattails, people are only voting republican at the top of the ticket and not bothering to vote at all further down on the ballot!


Now, I KNOW that the Democrats I talked to DID not vote for Bush, now even if every single Republican voted for Bush, of all the Independents in the entire state all but 8,469 would have had to vote for Bush for him to get that number of votes, I can tell you these are fake nos. We need to open up the machines! No more years.

http://www.elections.state.md.us/SBE_Election/turnout/t ...

[LearnedHand]

8. No doubt. The entire country saw widespread election fraud

Here in NM, there was an article saying we saw an 89% decrease (!!!111!!!) in minority and Native American undervoting after we went to paper ballots this last election. 'Nuff said?

[MissWaverly]

9. I wish we could have paper ballots too here in Maryland

esp. since the architect of the Help America Vote for Bush Act is now in the slammer.

[AshevilleGuy]

10. But after the House certifies the votes of the Electoral College,

it doesn't matter if the election was fraudulent or not. Isn't that amazing??

I suspect that if the republicans were the cheated against party, they woulD NEVER let it go. Nor should they.

[LearnedHand]

11. I don't recognize my own country anymore

How's the weather over there in the Great Smokeys? :hi:

[MissWaverly]

12. Yes, that's their excuse but I think there are ways around it

like undue influence, I have heard where people were threatened, if people were coerced
to certify the election results, they can not be legit, not in a democratic country.
Same way with the Supremes in 2000, if they were coerced, the election should be
declared "Null and Void" and appropriate steps taken.