Kentucky must have some kick-ass Bourbon
Really, it's the only way I can explain how Hillary and her crew were able to claim yesterday that the fight over seating the Florida delegation is like, among other things:
Florida 2000
The Civil Rights Movement
Women's Suffrage
and Zimbabwe
I don't envy them the hangover they are likely to have when they finally sober up. It also turns out that making the Florida primary results count as is may in an actual fact be a felony.
Florida election law (Chapter 104.0515) states that “No person, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, shall intimidate, threaten, or coerce, any other person for the purpose of causing such other person to vote for, or not vote for, any candidate for any office at any general, special, or primary election....”
Coerce is largely defined, “to compel by force, intimidation, or authority, esp. without regard for individual desire or volition.”
This Florida election statute makes it clear that if The Democratic Party chooses to use the results of Florida's January primary to determine delegates assigned to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, ignoring it's public edict that results would not count, high-ranking party members will be in violation of Florida election law. The crime is a third degree felony in this case.
If January's election results are used to select delegates, a Florida prosecutor could make a case that The Democratic Party officials used their “authority” to advise voters that their presidential votes would not count, without regard for the voters' “volition,” defined as the exercise of their personal choice. It could then be determined that the party intentionally caused some voters to not vote.
All across Florida, there are residents who admit that their decision to not vote for a presidential candidate in January was directly affected by The Democratic Party stating that the vote was meaningless. Several state newspapers have quoted people who fit this example.
Unlikely to happen of course, but important to remember that only the truly delusional could consider what happened in Florida was a fair vote.
