Election Shenanigans Watch: Lawyers Working Hard
The National Law Journal reports on the many, many lawyers who busted their tail (on both sides) making America a barely functional democracy:
In Ohio, New Hampshire and Virginia, lawyers scrambled to file court documents in election-related lawsuits. But in most states, lawyers were working to prevent litigation by fielding calls at centers housed at area law firm offices or traveling to polling locations to address voter concerns. Some states had unique issues, such as improper signage in Florida, missing absentee ballots in California and a shortage of interpreters for Asian-American voters in New York’s Chinatown.
Thanks to all who volunteered their time.
Nonetheless, a plethora of shenanigans ensued:
Jon Greenbaum, director of the Voting Rights Project, said the election did not go smoothly in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan and New Jersey. … The bottom line, according to Greenbaum: “The system is not designed to deal with a high turnout election and we’re seeing the effects of a lack of planning and resources.”
Recount!
Malfunctioning Machines, Ballot Glitches, Election-Law Litigation — and a Busy Day for Lawyers [Law.com]
Earlier: Election Shenanigans Watch: VA and (Sadly) Florida
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boycotting first
I'm gunna get you sucka!
Barry "I married Patrick Ewing" Obama
Let us welcome our new glorious leader comrades!!
I can't believe Prop 8 passed! Hey bigots: if you're against gay marriage, don't get one and shut the &^%# up!
Those weren't lawyers, they were Black Panthers.
say hi to your mother for me
BREAKING NEWS
Fox News is now reporting that Michelle Obama has admitted to having an affair with David Axelrod!!!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/michelle-obama-admits-affair-/
BREAKING NEWS
Fox News is now reporting that Michelle Obama has admitted to having an affair with David Axelrod!!!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/michelle-obama-admits-affair-/
gay marriage = gay aids = balls being gnawed off by Michelle Obama
BREAKING NEWS
Fox News is now reporting that Michelle Obama has admitted to having an affair with David Axelrod!!!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/michelle-obama-admits-affair-/
BREAKING NEWS
Fox News is now reporting that Michelle Obama has admitted to having an affair with David Axelrod!!!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/11/05/michelle-obama-admits-affair-/
"a plethora of shenanigans ENSURED"?????
If you are going to post this drivel at least proofread! Man this place has really gone downhill.
2, you are an idiot. AN IDIOT
PLEASE stop using "shenanigans." It sounds stupid.
HTH
Shouldn't that be 'shenanigans ensued' not 'shenanigans ensured'?
Ensure your work product is flawless or else a boycott will shortly ensue. I'm boycotting.
6, 7, 9, 10 -- stop the grade school act
#2, you did not just say that. That is wrong and has no place on this blog. Please exercise a little self censorship.
Thank you.
Cheryl
do you think obama will hire me for the office of legal counsel as 1L?
-nervous T-10 1L
email job leads to nervoust101l@yahoo.com
Mystal looks like Dr. Zaius. I wish he was as smart as Dr. Zaius, too.
God damn you, you damn dirty apes!
4 - Its bigoted for you to expect normal straight people to be subjected to the disgusting and nauseating spectacle of gay fairies cavorting and canoodling in public. Homosexuality is a perversion of nature and public displays of it ought to be criminalized. I have compassion for your plight but I'm sure there are drugs you could take to cure your illness if you cared enough to.
Don't you realize what comes out of the poopenshaft!? POOP!! Why would you want to put anything in there other than a piece of toilet paper!?
I mean come on now, why would you want another man's feces on your little weiner!? Homosexuality is really an illness!
Michelle Obama looks like she came out of the poopenshaft.
#2 = #16
7 - that link went down when i checked just a sec ago. this might be like the time fox said our soldiers found WMDs in iraq.
4. I am gay, and I voted for prop 8. Fucking activist judges should not replace the law with their own beliefs. That is for the legislature or the people.
#21=#19
#23, good for you!
Comrades - all hail our new Baboon in Chief!!
Free bananas for all!!
In re 18:
You maniac! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you to hell!
Dr. Zaius the musical is good.
Dr. Zaius the Mystical is even better.
Rock me, Dr. Zaius!
#26, classy
Hope your comment made you feel better.
In re 27:
Troy: [singing] I hate every ape I see
From chimpan-a to chimpan-zee
No, you'll never make a monkey out of me
Oh my God, I was wrong
It was Earth all along
You've finally made a monkey
Apes: Yes, we've finally made a monkey
Troy: Yes, you've finally made a monkey out of me
Apes: Yes, we've finally made a monkey out of you
Troy: I love you, Dr. Zaius!
2 - As a Knicks fan, please stop insulting Patrick Ewing - he's not quite that ugly!
And we can turn our health care system to the same geniuses that administer our elections, foreign policy, mail system, etc. Sounds Great!
Agree with #32 -- Tis an affront to Mr. Ewing.
31 - They'll probably wait a while - at least til their 14th birthdays - to get a baby daddy.
Barry O in da White HOOOOOUSE!
Elie, for the love of all that is good and sugary, please post some legal stories.
HOOOTY WHOOOOOOOO! Maybe R. Kelly will make a home video with one of the Lil'Obamas!
Obama is a "sOcialist."
Pass the word with these stickers, ATL-ers.
http://www.nobamastickers.blogspot.com
Can someone explain to me why they need interpreters in Chinatown? I thought you needed to be a citizen to vote, and you needed to know English to pass the citizenship test. Now I'm confused.
"Ax not what your country can do for you--ax what you can do for your country."
Barry O in da White HOOOOOUSE!
@ #39,
Illegal aliens are allowed to vote, as long as it's for democrats.
Obama kind of looks like the alien from Alien Autopsy
Also, love the Dr. Zaius comparison. Spot on, old chap!
23, 4 here. So you're one of the people I'm addressing - if you're against gay marriage, don't get one and leave those that want one alone. Doesn't matter if you're gay or straight.
Who amends their Constitution by simple majority?
CA, your lack of electoral foresight undermined your foresight of the future of equal protection and disappointed us all (we non-bigoted non-homophobic citizens who believe that equality is for more than just straight white religious pricks).
Are gays actually capable of love?
Ellie, please don't show up for work, thanks.
“Recently a doctor, whose personal religious views and conscience did not permit him to inseminate a lesbian woman, was sued by her and lost, even though another doctor agreed to perform the procedure. She had alternatives, in other words, but she was not satisfied with them. This suggests to me that the purpose of her suit was to satisfy one thing and one thing only: the need to see her rights as a gay person prevail over this man's right to freedom in practicing his religion according to his conscience. In all fairness, whose rights would be most violated here? Does his choice keep her from being inseminated as a lesbian woman? No. Does her choice to sue him (and win) keep him from practicing his beliefs (and medicine) as a religious man? Yes. She has other options. He does not. And yet, her rights prevailed...a harbinger, many people believe, of things to come.
Another potential problem has been seen in Boston, where gay marriage is already legal. Catholic Charities has closed down operations there because it cannot arrange adoptions for same-sex couples and still maintain integrity with Catholic beliefs. Even though same-sex couples could have used other adoption agencies, the operative agenda was to see a gay person's right to adopt win out over the Catholic church's right to practice its religion and manage its adoption agencies in accordance with its core beliefs. Once again, religious rights lost the battle where there should be no battle at all. In essence, the right of gay couples to adopt at ANY agency they might want to approach was deemed more important than the right of an agency (run and based upon the Catholic religion and its tenets) to self-determine in accordance with its core beliefs. The Church was forced to either surrender its own rights or shut down. In this instance at least, gay rights trumped the rights of a religious group or individual. Where is the justice in that, especially if it becomes the national precedent? Where is the justice in having schools (at best) validate and (at worst) present ideas of marriage and family that are directly contrary to parents' religious beliefs? Should churches be sued if they refuse to allow same-sex marriages in their religious buildings that are open to the public? These are all concerns of mine.
More than a few opponents of Proposition 8 label any person who supports the idea that only a man and a woman should be eligible for marriage as a "hater." Those who espouse same-sex marriage too frequently view those who oppose it as (best case) homophobic and (worst case) bigots who want to deny the rights of fellow citizens simply because their lifestyle does not agree with more traditional views. Both of these assumptions are patently unfair. What's more, they worry me, for they suggest that views based upon religion are now being classed with views based on racism, ageism, or other prejudices. Religion is not a prejudice, it's a right, as valid and sacred as any other. Yet, opinions based on religious belief have become suspect, and the right to exercise religion is becoming somehow "less worthy" than other rights. People do have a right to act in accordance with their religious beliefs, and those beliefs should be respected, not suspected.
Contrary to (some) popular opinion, it is entirely possible to believe that men should not "marry" men and women should not "marry" women without bearing any malice at all toward the men and women in question. I fully support their right to form loving, committed unions under the protection of fair and equitable domestic partnership laws.”
Susan Noyes Anderson
23, don't come to the party late. and if you do, know the gossip before you say anything.
the legislature twice passed bills for gay marriage. the governator twice said he wanted the courts to decide the issue, then vetoed them.
look up his press released. then state the real reason you voted for prop 8.
time to make the donuts
time to make the donuts
time to make the donuts
#4: "if you're against gay marriage, don't get one and shut the &^%# up!"
I bet you're pro gun-control, though, right?
52, what's your point? That gay marriage could fall into the wrong hands and kill someone?
- 4
A likely response from a person in #4's position to #52 would be that gun control is not analogous to gay marriage, since ubiquitous firearms can have tremendous adverse externalities, which are absent from gay marriage. But as #47 explains, gay marriage is not necessarily victimless….
54 - yeah, that's pretty much what I said.
4/53
4/53/55--Yeah, and you were wrong.
If gay marriage infringes on religious liberties and the constitutional right to freedom of conscience (as 47 suggests) then it is a material loss to America, (arguably) no less that gun-related violence.
54
Oh my god. What has happened to this blog? I am so sad right now. What crap. I'm not talking about Elie. He's perfectly fine.
These commenters. Yikes.
How does gay marriage have anything to do with that suit against the doctor in 47? Unmarried lesbians may also want insemination.
4:
No, my point is that your reasoning was that if you're against something, don't engage in it. If you're against gay marriage, don't get one. Great, I agree. A very libertarian (lower-case "L") philosophy. By the same token, if you don't like guns, don't get one.
As far as "ubiquitous" firearms being a danger to society and gay marriage not, there are plenty who would disagree with both propositions. Firearms, per se, present no danger. Certain individuals, with any weapon, including firearms, present a danger.
But all of this is beside the point and I was just feeling mildly snarky with my prior comment.
"Unmarried lesbians may also want insemination."
Yeah, baby! That's what I'm here for. Just send `em my way for some free inseminating.
On second thought, some of those women are kinda scary. Not sure I could get the job done, if you know what I mean.
Damn 46, that was long. Care to condense it and put it in a tabbed binder for me?
So it looks like the ATL comment thread is the new Palin hate rally. JFC. I'm officially un-bookmarking this site.