Har har har!! Excellent, Mr 'Spaw sir. Hee hee hee...A lotta crap but ohhh, so well done. Any good parody of muh man Bobby Zimmerman is OK by me. :)

The ballot was reviewed & approved (maybe not actually designed, I forget) by Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore, so it might be a little difficult to hang her in the way you propose, 'Spaw. A 32-year career election official, she is well respected in her profession. She's been twice elected Supervisor by the county's voters. I don't know whether she's running again next year; but if she does, I betcha she gets elected again. (YEAHyeah, she'll rig the ballot, etc. etc. Skip it. Go make fun of folk musicians. :)

Alice - Thanks. You're right, I hadn't read the article; I will do so. Fraud, and negligence, can & do occur of course, and obviously are unacceptable. I just wanted to put on the record that "purges" don't *automatically* (or even usually) equate to that just because my candidate (who WAS Al Gore btw) narrowly lost. The same is true of the "undervote", cited (I think) in 'Spaw's spoof above as ballots 'thrown out'. The undervote is the difference between the total *voting*, and the always-lower total voting *for a given office*, e.g., the "top office" on the ballot, e.g. President. Most (not all) of the top-office undervote -- which ALWAYS occurs, everywhere, typically at a rate of around 1% -- is caused by the fact that some voters consciously (even *rationally*) choose not to vote for that office. To the extent that this occurs for this reason, these are not "ballots thrown out". They are abstentions for that office. // But, it's still a funny song. :)