Election 2000
This last election wasn't too bad
'Til they brought out the concept of 'dimples' and 'chad'. 
That's when Gore took the floor,
And asked to count more,
So the one's that weren't punched could be had...

The rule, at first, was that sunlight must pass
through a hole in the card where the ballot was cast.

But when push came to shove,
The powers above
Decreed that a dimple
would make the count simple.
... and maybe more Democratic?..  with a big 'D'.

Next came the absentee ballots --  by cases!
Which arrived without postmarks from those foreign bases. 
So again Gore proclaimed, "For you I will fight..." 
That translates to mean:  "If you vote for me!" ...Riiight? 

So to make your vote count, 
some states say it's nice, 
to vote for both parties and we'll count them all twice... 

But next time, I tell ya, 
    I won't catch the fever, 
          'cause in 2004  I'll vote for 'Ralph Neither!

 -- Greg Molenaar -- 22 November 2000
     grm at tds dot net (Tedious?)