Comments on: A Remedy for Election Tampering

By: Meredith

Meredith — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:30:07 +0000

Oh Dos, tisk tisk. That website is the one that’s tricky. No one will be allowed to “clone human beings for science experiments.” The “trick” is that people need to do research on these issues for themselves. The ballot language is a little confusing I will admit, but it is up to voters to know about the issues they are voting on. This website claims that cloning is cloning. If you know about somatic nuclear transfer and the difference between reproductive and therapeutic cloning, you know that cloning is not cloning. Under the amendment, there will be no cloned human beings or sheep or anything else – only the cloning of cells. Pro-lifers against this are mad because the cells that are being used for this come from frozen embryos. It is not true that we will be cloning people.

I attended the oral arguments at the Missouri Court of Appeals, and the people claiming the ballot language was misleading wanted to substitute it for language that was equally confusing, but leading to an opposite conclusion. Very disingenuous. The language was drafted by the Secretary of State and not some liberal or pro-choice or pro-cloning group. In this campaign, it has been anti-amendment 2 people that have been tricky – example: sign on 71 highway that says if you vote yes on amendment 2 you are voting for abortion.

Bottom line: There is responsibility on the part of voters to become educated about the issues on their ballots.

By: DosPeros

DosPeros — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:19:46 +0000

Here’s a website that explains: http://www.2tricky.org/

Every ounce of it is true and Judge Smart, with the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals, hit the nail on the head.

By: Eural

Eural — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:52:56 +0000

I’m unfamiliar with the situation DosPeros. Can you give some details to enlighten those of us not from your neck of the woods?

By: DosPeros

DosPeros — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:08:10 +0000

You want to talk about election tampering — lets talk about the SHAM description of Amendment 2 on Missouri ballots. A complete, horrible joke! You can’t even call that a ‘bait and switch’ — it is straight out fraud – vote for this, get something different. They should put the entire law on the ballot, after all, it is the entire law that one is voting for or against. That thing read like a script to pro-Amend. 2 advertisement. Again, bullshit, deceitful, dishonest trickery and it will probably work.