The Tease of Things I Don't Need

To shock the conscience of the court...

Citing a signature-gathering process that was "the most deceitful and fraudulent exercise ever perpetrated upon this court," Commonwealth Court President Judge James Gardner Colins said that fewer than 19,000 of the more than 51,000 signatures that Nader's supporters submitted for entrace to the ballot in Pennsylvania were valid. Amidst the randomly assembled names and addresses were reportedly "Mickey Mouse" and "Fred Flintstone." Consequently, the ballots here in PA will not include Ralph Nader as anything but a write-in candidate come November 2nd. I'd been watching the story both as a Pennsylvania resident and because - as noted late in the piece - many counties opted to send out their absentee ballots early, while Nader's name was still on them. (That said, Tammy - once again - caught the story on the decision before I'd seen it and sent the link my way.) Hopefully the word will get around that any of those mail-in ballots where Nader's name will be checked off will not be counted; a move, looking at it objectively, which strikes me as extreme, considering that even write-in votes will at least theoretically be counted.

Any white magicians in the audience are invited to cast a spell to compel any of the Bush supporters who went to these lengths to try to get Nader on the ballot to use their votes as a write-ins for Ralph Nader.