As many votes as you guys claim were given Gore by Broward's supposedly loose standard, probably 2 to 3 times as many were taken away from Gore . . .
One cannot taketh away what one has never been giveth.
And on a less important note 2-3 times as many votes??????. What hat did you pull that figure out of? Its evident you like to distort the truth. A tribute to your legal training.
Intent of the voter is no standard. Justices Breyer and Souter know this, and each confronted Boise on this issue in oral arguments yesterday. On the presumption of some useable standard Boise responded "that's a difficult question." Give me a break. The bottom line here is that Florida law is unconstitutional with respect to manual recounts in statewide elections that include presidential elections. There IS NO TRUE STANDARD whereby votes of similarly situated voters (same voting mechanism) will have their votes counted or not counted on an equal basis. This is a fundamental underpinning of equal protections with respect to voting rights. How come you Democrats dispute this?
Well, for starters, there's absolutely no way in h--- that a dimpled chad is going to be accepted on a statewide basis. Its a bogus standard, and its wrong UNLESS the dimpled chad is SUPPLEMENTED by extrinsic evidence probative of the voter's intent, and in most cases, if not all, in Florida there is NONE. The fact that the ballot shows punched through chads for a Democratic slate with the exception of the presidential slate is not, repeat NOT, a clear ascertainable manifestation of the voter's intent. The dumbass woman on the Broward Canvassing Board thought so, but its just as conceivable that such a voter CHOSE not to vote for Gore because he/she didn't like him, which is certainly understandable. |
