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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PartyTime who wrote (114269)12/13/2000 11:59:45 AM
From: BG Smith  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Party Time, it is difficult to respond to your argument, because it is a hypothetical and in one case you are discussing the actual ballot and in another you are discussing the application for an absentee ballot.
Both sides stipulated that the id # was not placed on the form by the individual requesting the ballot.
BUT, the ballots were issued and the votes were cast in the proper manner.
Now, the question is, what to do with the VOTES that were cast? The courts said to count them.

How about the situation where the polls were kept open longer than scheduled (even after being ordered to close by the courts) and people continued to vote. Do you throw out all the votes from that polling place, do you throw out some portion of them? Do you contest a close election on this event? No, once a vote is cast, it is usually considered as part of the universe of legal votes and is counted along with all the others.

What about the felons that voted? What about those precincts that had over 100% voter turnout. What about the irregularities in the INS system? What about the thousands (yes, thousands) of military that never received their absentee ballots.
As I see it, there are just too many "what ifs". This election was too close and resulted in an unprecedented court fight.
The laws are pretty clear in some areas and the 7-2 SC decision that the hand recounts in FL were unconstitutional is pretty decisive to me.

Bill Clinton took office after winning only 43% of the popular vote in 92. I think Bush will be ok (he got 48%).
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