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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (285450)	8/9/2002 6:17:15 PM
From: G_Barr	Read Replies (1) of 769670

I think you're actually making progress. A legal vote is any vote cast at the proper time and place of polling the clearly indicates the intent of the voter. Yes, this was the Fla. definition that the majority let stand (and Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas thought wrong). Rules were not in place to objectively define how to determine intent of those to stupid to follow simple rules. True. And Scalia said people too stupid to follow the rules but nevertheless had legal votes had to be treated equally. See his discussion of unequal treatment of overvotes and undervotes. Because the technology retards of the Florida Supreme Court refused to objectively define how to determine intent of those to stupid to follow simple rules, the manual recount they ordered violated the Constitution Yes, that is what the majority essentially said. Of course if their process had to conform to the constitution, so did the prior process. Hence, what is missing is an explanation of how the previous process complied with Scalia's command that those too stupid to follow the simple rules, but whose vote was still legal, would be treated equally with the other legal votes.

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