http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/roundtable/2008/12/02/discuss-tuesdays-editorials-74/ Read and comment on topics posted by The Roanoke Times editorial board. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:55:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/roundtable/2008/12/02/discuss-tuesdays-editorials-74/#comment-31515 Sandi Saunders Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:45:45 +0000 http://blogs.roanoke.com/rtblogs/roundtable/?p=8311#comment-31515 "Goode won't get a real recount" Well once again I quibble with the wording (go figure) and the message. He "had every right" and "He deserves one too" only in a certain context would I agree. As a Virginia politician for his adult life, Mr. Goode was in a unique position to know well the election system and it's foibles. He was certainly around for past recounts here and the more infamous national contests. To never raise an eyebrow or the issue when you win election after election strikes me as pretty self serving to then complain when you finally (at long last) lose. Your last line " within the limitations of the existing technology" says it all. This is the Virginia system. I will forgive a first time pol who might actually be unaware, but Goode gets no such pass. "You pays your money and you takes your chances". The system may well need to be fixed, I won't argue against that. The counting could even be "rigged", I have enough skepticism for that one as well, but to benefit from the same system election after election and know (as he must) that a "recount" is not a re-count, makes it absurd to ask for one or be supported for the request absent any true allegation of errors or irregularities beyond the ones in his mind. And what of the consequences and fall out if this so-called recount did change the outcome? "Goode won't get a real recount" Well once again I quibble with the wording (go figure) and the message. He "had every right" and "He deserves one too" only in a certain context would I agree. As a Virginia politician for his adult life, Mr. Goode was in a unique position to know well the election system and it's foibles. He was certainly around for past recounts here and the more infamous national contests. To never raise an eyebrow or the issue when you win election after election strikes me as pretty self serving to then complain when you finally (at long last) lose. Your last line " within the limitations of the existing technology" says it all. This is the Virginia system. I will forgive a first time pol who might actually be unaware, but Goode gets no such pass. "You pays your money and you takes your chances". The system may well need to be fixed, I won't argue against that. The counting could even be "rigged", I have enough skepticism for that one as well, but to benefit from the same system election after election and know (as he must) that a "recount" is not a re-count, makes it absurd to ask for one or be supported for the request absent any true allegation of errors or irregularities beyond the ones in his mind. And what of the consequences and fall out if this so-called recount did change the outcome?

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