The Constitution Party of Georgia presented documentation today that showed the official 2008 Georgia election results failed to include more than 10% of the votes cast for Constitution Party Presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin. As sample evidence, party officials contrasted the certified Cherokee County election results, which confirm 75 votes for Baldwin, with the official November 14th state results for Cherokee County, which show no votes for Baldwin. After sampling the official county results from 100 of Georgia’s 159 counties, party officials estimated that more than 130 of Baldwin’s 1,300 votes from 10 specific counties were missing.

The press and conservative taqlk show hosts had a field day when signature collectors hired by Acorn signed up fictional characters, celebrities and entire sports team rosters as registered voters. But none of these people voted, which means Acorn was a victim, not a perpetrator.

But we hear almost nothing in the press about legitimate voters who are being disenfranchises by party functionaries who actually do the work of counting votes, but can’t seem to find votes in favor of non Big Two candidates.

Stuff like this makes the United States look like a banana republic.

Libertarians have never won statewide office in Georgia, but suddenly their votes have become valuable currency in the extended U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.

No sooner had the sun peeked over the horizon on Nov. 5 than Martin and Chambliss —- both sleep-deprived and headed for a runoff —- were reaching out to the “other party.” Libertarian Senate candidate Allen Buckley won nearly 130,000 of the 3.7 million votes cast Nov. 4, enough in this squeaker of a Senate race to have put either Chambliss or Martin over the 50 percent mark needed for victory.

Now in a nationally watched Dec. 2 Senate runoff, Chambliss and Martin are reaching out to anyone who voted Libertarian Nov. 4.

Hrumph.

Folks, your vote belongs to YOU. It’s not the property of the Big Two. If the Democrats and Republicans wanted Libertarian Party votes, they ought to nominate candidates who have libertarian inclinations.