Isn't it amazing how the press and the Democrats have managed to turn Al Gore's attempt to count ballots until he got a majority in Florida into the Republicans stealing the election? It is even more interesting the numbers of stories about voter fraud by the Democrats nationwide that went unreported by our objective media. Not a single Republican was accused of punching extra holes in Bush ballots, giving out cigarettes to homeless people so they would vote, opening the polls on Sunday to take busloads of people to the polls early to vote for Al Gore, leaving the polls open late in heavily Democratic areas, or getting caught driving around with a voting machine in the trunk of their car.

No one reported the statistical improbability of thousands of votes getting more than one hole punched in them in only the Presidential race in only two counties in Florida in both the 1996 election and the 2000 election. The odds, based on the rest of the country and the history of elections with punch card ballots was somewhere around a 149 Million to 1. All the ballyhoo over counting every vote went silent when it came to the ballots of our overseas service men and women. And I must have missed the front page stories about how the Democrats blocked voting on a bill which would put polling places on our military bases so that our citizens in uniform could vote more easily. Nothing was said of the felons allowed to vote in Florida in violation of the law, just whining by our criminal class that they ought to be able to.

The election is over and the Supreme Court had to step in and prevent the Florida Courts from rewriting the rules after the fact. George W. Bush will be sworn in this month without an MTV party cancelled because they are sore losers. It is now time to think about election reform. Real election reform.

I predict that it will be the Democrats who oppose election reform. At least meaningful reform. Any voting reform that prevents cheating will favor the Republicans and the Democrats will fight tooth and nail to guard their advantage. In order for a vote to be legal, dead people cannot vote, unregistered people cannot vote, convicted felons cannot vote, illegal aliens cannot vote, non-citizens cannot vote and people can only vote once. In some heavily Democratic areas of Texas, the turnout on Election Day was 125% of the registered voters. On a University Campus in Wisconsin, students were given up 10 ballots each as they entered the voting booths. All conveniently forgotten by the news media.

We should also move the press 2 miles from any polling place so they can't call the election before the polls close in a state in order to discourage people from voting. There is no doubt in my mind that on election night ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN were pulling for Al Gore in a big way. Only the endlessly gullible would believe otherwise.

We should have separate voting registrations for Federal Elections as opposed to State Elections. That will prevent states like Maryland from passing laws preventing people from having to show proof of citizenship when they register. If Maryland wants to allow illegal aliens and non-citizens to vote for their governor, I guess that's up to the people of Maryland. But I believe that in a Federal Election the voters should be registered, felony free and citizens of the United States.