AlterNet: Supreme Disenfranchisement

"Raskin persuasively argues that this Supreme Court has subverted the very democratic principles that millions of new voters believe await them: the right to vote, participate, have access to the ballot, and faith their vote will count. Indeed, in Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court wrote, 'the individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote' in presidential elections (Bush, 531 U.S. at 104) Moreover, in Bush v. Gore, the court was emphatic that state legislatures have the power to bypass the popular vote and select presidential electors. 'The State legislature's power to select the manner of appointing electors is plenary; it may, if it so chooses, select the electors itself.' (Bush, 531 U.S. at 104)"

This goes to show just what a Bubba I can be sometimes. Gee, I thought that Americans had the right to vote. More sillyness that we hear about in schools, along with "anyone can become president" and "separation of church and state".

Thanks to cursor.

And, oh yeah, who perpetrates the un-supreme idea that Americans have the right to vote? Get a load of this treat from CNN:


With a quick computer key stroke, space station astronaut Leroy Chiao became the first American to vote for president from space, casting an encrypted ballot via e-mail and urging fellow countrymen to go to the polls Tuesday.

"It was just a small thing for me, but it is important symbolically to show that every vote does count," Chiao said from the international space station a few hours after the polls opened 225 miles below.

The only thing that is important to the Bubba administration is the symbol: the reality of the piteous state of American democracy today must remain hidden from public view.