What I'm driving at is that we can't employ a vote counting system that allows one candidate to gain an unfair advantage. Gore simply can't point to a vote total that includes hand-counts from only his counties, and call it fair, if he has a brain in his head and he understands the intelligence of the American people, IMO. The Supreme Court is unlikely to let any of us walk away believing such a skewed count is fair, no matter how it comes about.
I have no problem with hand-counting all applicable chadded counties; what Bush thinks regarding hand-counting and subjectivity is a mere aside as regards my point. He may be right or wrong and it wouldn't change the fact that ya just can't do it in only partisan counties and call it fair.
You may be sure Gore would win if all counties were counted, and you may even feel this is your ace argument, but my argument here isn't concerned with which guy wins, just what's fair. So, my advice is just don't bet the Supreme Court will call this skewed total count Gore's requests have created fair. A system that would allow a plainly skewed result at the behest of one candidate(Al Gore) cannot be constitutional.
Re: "I think the answer to your question as to why Gore did not request all applicable counties be counted "equitably" is that each county's election commission calls the shots, not the Bush campaign nor the Gore campaign."
That doesn't explain at all. Either candidate could have asked the county election commissions. Bush asked none, Gore asked only his own...either could have asked for all Chadded counties to count. Neither did, and that includes Gore, you see? So again, if he really recognizes counting all counties is fair, why didn't he ask them all directly himself? Let some commissions turn him down if that's to be the case, so what? The only thing to realize here is that the system in Fla. apparently(if you believe a partisan, Gore) allows someone to gain a counting advantage, when that is clearly an unconstitutional concept from the get go.
Gore had another chance with the Supreme Court of Fla., and again, he continued to seek vote-recovery from only his territory, which would skew the results of the state popular vote in an unconstitutional fashion.
Sorry to ramble, but since you were having trouble seeing my point, which I suspect is very foreign to your partisan thoughts to date, I figure a little repetition might help it sink in.
Dan B |
