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Common Sense: Reverse Robin Hood
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Subject: Common Sense: Reverse Robin Hood


  Reverse Robin Hood  
            08/18/06  
     
      
            Sometimes Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan administers elections and sometimes she seems hell-bent on preventing them from ever taking place. 

            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. 

            But when it comes to citizen initiatives with which she disagrees, she doesn't care to hear from the voters at all. 

            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. 

            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. 

            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. 

            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. 

            This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. 


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