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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95248)	11/30/2000 7:45:56 AM
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Don't change the rules Published Wednesday, November 29, 2000, in the Miami Herald CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Take away the lawyers, the spinners and the demonstrators, and you are left with the conundrum of this election: The margin of victory is smaller than the margin of error of our vote-counting technology. We can never know who really won. Only God knows the location and meaning of every hidden, dimpled, missing or underpunched ballot in Florida. It is therefore absurd to speak of the ``will of the people.'' It can never be ascertained. What to do? Just follow the rules. They may be arbitrary, inadequate and no more likely to produce the divinely inscrutable ``will of the people'' than a flip of a coin. But the rules are the only legitimate way of deciding such a contest. Which rules? The ones as they existed on Election Day. That is what is wrong with the Gore campaign's unyielding attempt to keep counting and recounting, suing and countersuing, divining and intuiting indiscernible voter intentions, in order to create enough votes to win. herald.com

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