Quoted from WSJ
by: VRWC
11/10/00 8:45 am
Msg: 196014 of 196014
Poor Florida. It is being put under a national microscope to
determine the credibility of its voting system. No surprise, what
we're seeing is that the results aren't always particularly edifying.
There is no basis in law, however, to believe that demanding that
a vote be restaged because of "irregularities" in Florida's election
system, or any other state's for that matter, is going to survive in
court. Were that true, there'd have been hundreds of restaged
votes in this country.
Mr. Gore, Mr. Daley and all the Democratic lawyers know this.
Their case about irregularities and confusion is merely a pretext
for finding some friendly jurist who will overrule the voters in an
excruciatingly close contest. This is a destructive course of
action for the Republic and the Constitution. Also, by the way,
for a Democratic Party already tainted by eight years of its own
irregularities, that is to say, by a habit of trashing the rule of law
in the pursuit of political advantage. |
