Interesting comments by Rush: The editrix of the Limbaugh Letter, Diana Schneider, sent me an e-mail that leads me to a point I want posted all over this website. She wrote, "Rush, in all this talk about mis-voting and confusing ballots and pregnant chads, all the attention seems to be on 'the intent of the voters'.
"But what about the intent of the legislators? What was in the minds of those duly elected Florida officials, who crafted the statute that requires all vote tallies be reported to the secretary of state by five p.m. on November 14th? What is the purpose of that statute, and what was it designed to prevent and protect?"
These are pretty good questions. After all, the legislators all participated in the debate on the establishment of the statute that requires all votes to be in by five p.m. a week after Election Day. They expressed their will by voting. Are we to, as the Democrats want, disenfranchise the legislators by rendering the statute irrelevant and meaningless? What about their votes, hmm?
The legislators who wrote Florida's election law said that all votes must be in, and certified, by five o'clock seven days after the election. They passed this law because a week is ample time to count and certify the results and get them into the secretary of state - and because the longer you give people to tally the results, the greater chance you're giving people to corrupt the process.
We can't ignore the law the legislature voted for because of a small percentage of uninformed or incompetent people in a few counties. Remember, these legislators were elected. That was the "will of the people." What's coming from the Gore campaign, on the other hand, has nothing to do with "the will of the people." That's why they refuse to say what their endgame is, because their endgame is to prolong this process until - by whatever means necessary - Algore takes the oath of office.
The people in Florida elected their legislature to write the rules about when a ballot becomes a vote. What the Democrats want to do is nullify the legislators, the elections that those legislators who won, and disenfranchise the people who elected those legislators to boot!
This brings me to my final point, which is this: When you hear Algore's team say, "We must count every vote," that's not accurate. What they really want to do is count every ballot - which isn't the same thing.
The Gore team wants their partisans to look at any and all double-punched or not-punched-at-all ballots to see if they can find out what the voters on those ballots "really meant." To them, every ballot - not every vote - is precious, because each one represents a chance to find a vote for Algore.
You can't run an election this way, because there's clearly something wrong with these ballots, which is why the machine designed to read them, rejected them. They were never meant to be counted by hand, much less recounted and recounted and recounted.
This is such an important point, ladies and gentlemen. I want you to print this page, highlight it, e-mail it to your friends, read it to your family over the phone - whatever it takes to get this truth out there. This "count every vote" business is a Gore-team scam. Don't fall for it.
As the Gore campaign's chad wars continue, I'm struck by something. Don't you find it stunning that the Democrats are eager to go to the Supreme Court to fight for the life of an unborn chad, but you'll never see them go to the Supreme Court to fight for the life of an unborn child?
Will this lead to back-alley ballots? We'll explore this on our next excursion into broadcast excellence...
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