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To: EnricoPalazzo who wrote (8012)11/10/2000 11:15:21 AM
From: tekboy  Read Replies (3) of 22706
 
The law is the law, and must be enforced fairly and faithfully. To suggest otherwise is to undermine the very underpinnings of our society.

nice sentiment for the Gov. Dept. Soph. Tutorial (which I used to teach), but if you supplemented your second-tier undergraduate education with a first-tier legal one down in CT, you might be more of a legal realist... (had to put in something like that to keep the Mudgeness of the thread on track!)

The problem with your view is that it refuses to accept competing goods. Yes, the PB ballot might have violated the law because of its arrangement (wonderful long pause about that by the FL officials during their press conference yesterday). BUT--do you have any doubt that there were countless similar minor illegalities across the country yesterday? If we redo this one without redoing the others, the result is even more unfair, it seems to me. Moreover, if the Gore people take this to the courts and try to win on lawyers' points, then the ultimate election result will have about as much popular legitimacy as the OJ trial result.

As for the confusingness of the ballot, your points are valid, but at this point it has to be a judgment call not about whether it was confusing but about just how confusing it was. For me, the fact that 95% of the voters in the county figured it out combined with the arrows in question and the pre-election efforts to explain things tip the scales in favor of letting things stand.

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