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.
> 

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