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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (5976)2/16/2001 6:33:13 PM
From: TimF   of 82486
 
An amusing hypothetical example that struck me while fetching my daughter. Imagine that a President was elected with a minority of the popular vote, and won the electoral vote only through what the aggrieved group perceived as a judicial coup d'etat.

Bush won the majority of the electoral votes. The state legislature (which has sole constitutional authority in this issue) set a deadline by which votes have to be counted. The FLA SC tried to overturn this. The US SC slaped that down. In any case it appears that when the votes that were supposedly not counted were looked at after the election, many of them don't even have dimples or marks and the total for Bush might actually have gone up more then the total for Gore, if the normal methods for guessing what the voter intended where used.

Suppose that this government implemented rules aimed at forcing pregnant women to give birth, which many women see as a direct violation of their right to determine what is done with their bodies.

Leaveing aside the merits of each side of the abortion controversy for the moment, the chance that abortion will be outlawed in the US under Bush is about equal to the chance of all life on earth being wiped out by an astroid or large comet hiting the earth during the current administration.

Tim
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