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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: TraderGreg who wrote (5890)12/12/2000 4:33:17 PM
From: Valley Girl  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
Although the Bush legal team had to make that argument, even if it wasn't the real crux of the matter. Reason: to make any other argument would be to ask the lower courts to establish uniform standards for a recount, something virtually guaranteed to be ruled unconstitutional because it's tantamount to rewriting the law that was in place as of election day. Painted into a constitutional corner, they made the only argument that they thought would fly. It's pretty obvious that this troubled the FL SC as well - their ruling to include all counties in the new recount was clearly an attempt to institute a fair (by their lights, anyway, since throwing in the partial M-D results was a real stinker) recount, but they went out of their way not to set an objective standard, instructing the lower court to abide by the vague "voter intent" language. As I said before, whoever wrote that statute should have his/her bags packed!
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