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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Common Sense: Reverse Robin Hood</DIV></DIV>
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<P>Sometimes Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan administers
elections and sometimes she seems hell-bent on preventing them from
ever taking place. <BR><BR>She's a Democrat, but does she like
democracy? Well, she liked it fine when she found new ways to count
spoiled ballots in a local election, allowing a fellow Democrat to
win a recount by a single vote. <BR><BR>But when it comes to citizen
initiatives with which she disagrees, she doesn't care to hear from
the voters at all. <BR><BR>She tried to derail a private property
rights measure by moving the long-set petition deadline up two days
. . . with only weeks left, and at extra taxpayer expense. Then,
when activists turned in over 200,000 voter signatures nonetheless,
Carnahan had her office refuse to count the petitions.
<BR><BR>Well-connected opponents of the measure challenged the
ballot title, which her office wrote. With only 48 hours left before
the deadline for petitions to be turned in, she gave proponents a
new ballot title and told them that only signatures gathered in
these last hours would be counted. <BR><BR>Carnahan also argues that
she shouldn't have to count the petitions because 4 percent of the
pages lack page numbers. In the past her office handled this common
problem without trouble. Not now. <BR><BR>This is official Show-Me
state opposition to the rights of the people to participate in the
initiative process. Robin Carnahan is a Reverse Robin Hood,
destroying democracy in order to protect the powerful. <BR><BR>This
is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. </P>
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