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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: donjuan_demarco who wrote (112196)	12/12/2000 1:22:31 PM
From: brutusdog	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Bending the rules boosted Bush totals Republicans objected to Democratic efforts to extend vote tally deadlines -- but pressed to change standards for absentee ballots. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Eric Boehlert Dec. 11, 2000 \| Going into oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, attorneys for Gov. George W. Bush have argued that the manual recount ordered Friday by the Florida Supreme Court was unconstitutional because there was no uniform statewide standard for judging ballots. As spelled out in its brief to the court, Bush's legal team stressed, "The new set of manual recount procedures concocted by the Florida Supreme Court is arbitrary, standardless, and subjective, and will necessarily vary in application in violation of Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment." Yet Bush's slim lead of less than 200 votes -- down from 537 before Friday's ruling -- stands precisely because a handful of sympathetic county canvassing boards in late November used an arbitrary, standardless procedure to quietly boost Bush's total by reinstating some invalid overseas military ballots. Not only did the boards clearly change the rules in the middle of the game -- something else the Republicans have repeatedly accused the Florida Supreme Court of doing -- but they created a hodgepodge of new standards, some of dubious legitimacy. These included accepting ballots postmarked after Nov. 7 as well as ballots faxed to county election offices. Both instances violate Florida election law. salon.com Who can defend this?

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