Analyze the News Coverage Turn on the national news every evening. Have a contest to see who can repeat that phrase in the best deep, resonant and impeccably serious tone without laughing. Come up with a list of softball questions for the candidates. Language Arts Use the words chad and snippy in a sentence. Each line should be a word.
Entomology Make a chart of the life cycle of the Florida butterfly ballot.
Research the elections during the Civil War. So there you have it. The safeguards put in place to check state power are ultimately used by the state to legitimize and extend its power. That's how all this can happen in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Quite obviously, voting is neither a check on government power nor in any way a measure of the will of the people.