>From: Jabou Joh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Fwd: McKinney Won the Democratic Vote! >Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:32:29 EDT > >In a message dated 8/27/2002 4:31:38 PM , [log in to unmask] writes: > > > > McKinney Won the Democratic Vote! > > > > McKinney's opponent, Denise Majette, received 49,103 votes from > > traditionally > > Republican voting precincts in North DeKalb and 2,145 votes from Republican > > leaning precincts in Gwinnett County, totaling 51,248 votes. She received > > a > > total of 68,612 votes. Therefore 74.69 or 75 percent of the opposition’s > > votes came from the northern and Republican part of McKinney's district. > > > > South DeKalb is the base of the traditional Democratic vote in the 4th > > District. Denise Majette received 17,364 votes from South DeKalb, which > > totaled 25.3 percent of her total vote. Majette carried only one precinct > > in > > South DeKalb by a margin of 24 votes (North Hairston). > > > > Of the 76 precincts in North DeKalb, 54 were carried in the November 2000 > > election by the Republican opposition and therefore can be classified as > > Republican precincts. The opposition carried all 54 precincts. > > > > Twenty-two of the 76 precincts in North DeKalb were carried by Cynthia > > McKinney in the 2000 general election. However, in the 2002 Democratic > > primary, they were carried by the opposition suggesting Republican > > crossover. > > > > In the 2002 Democratic primary election in DeKalb County, there were > > 116,544 > > Democratic ballots cast while there were only 6,886 Republican ballots cast > > suggesting that Democrats voted approximately 17 times more often than > > Republicans which is unlikely. > > > > In the 2000 Democratic Primary, there were 54,861 ballots cast while there > > were 116,544 ballots cast in the 2002 Democratic Primary, which is a 47 > > percent increase. > > > > Republicans telegraphed via the media their intentions to intervene in the > > Democratic primary with no response from the State or National Democratic > > leadership. > > > > It is clear that Congresswoman McKinney won the Democratic vote. > > Republicans > > do not have the right to determine the outcome of a Democratic Primary as > > they did in Congresswoman McKinney's race. Therefore, the outcome of this > > election is not only a travesty of justice and a perversion of the > > democratic > > process, but stands alongside the Florida 2000 debacle as just as i > > llegitimate. > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~