Take a contested (read: rigged) VA gubernatorial race to the Supreme Court

[woldnewton]

This will be O'Connor's opportunity to {partially} redeem herself for her infamous mistake in 2000. I swear to you that if Kerry had taken the results to the courts last year, O'Connor would have ruled in her favor.

Call both Warner at [phone] and Kaine at [phone] (Do you think it would be a good idea to call every single campaign headquarters number?) and urge them to contest any election rigged closely in favor of Kilgore -- this is a litmus test for whether or not the Democrats can challenge election fraud in purple states as well as blue states like Washington.

Also, who is the attorney general as well as secretary of state in VA? Are they elected positions? Appointed? What party do both belong to?

[adarling]

1. if Warner doesn't win (thats the democrat right?)

then do it, call all of them and get it out to the public. It is much easier with this election because since there are not a ton going on around the country, these few mixups will expose the GOP for the trash they really are.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. Kaine is the Dem. Warner is the current governor. He can't

run for a successive term.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. This is a little premature. Let's wait to see what happens. Looks like

we will be OK

[apnu]

5. Sorry, but I think that's crap.

Everybody said that in '04 and Kerry picked up on it and caved in two seconds. We all knew the fix was in, we all knew by noon on that day that Ohio was screwed. The exact same pattern is happening again today and we think it's premature?!?!

No way, Virginians gotta scream loud and long if you want anything done. And they have to start screaming right now.

[woldnewton]

7. Thank you, apnu

You saved me the time and trouble of convincing this "wait and see" guy.

Yeah, I'll 'wait and see' and experience deja vu that reminds me of the 'wait and see' approach of the 1930's Germans.

[Divernan]

4. Absolutely! Let Gov. Warner appoint temp. Senator until investigation

of voting irregularities is completed. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Kerry was wrong to concede Ohio, and
Gore was wrong to concede Florida. It's about time the Democrats learned this hard lesson. The Republicans will keep pulling this shit with the Diebold/computers until the Dems stand up on their hind legs and stop conceding. It's true that posession is 9/10ths of the law. Once a cheating Republican has been sworn in to office, the courts will bend over backward to avoid the mess of declaring an election invalid, let alone finding the Republican guilty of election fraud.

[onenote]

6. uhh...no one is running for Senator..

And I don't have a copy of Virginia's election law handy, but I'd be surprised if it empowered the governor to do much of anything...certainly wouldn't empower him to appoint a "temporary governor".

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