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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election
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To: c.horn who started this subject12/13/2000 1:21:10 PM
From: Mkilloran  Read Replies (1) of 1013
 
In the final analysis the Democrats ran out the clock pushing for a recount using unconstitutional standards favorable to their candidate.
They have nobody to blame but themselves.

AND WHY DID THEY WANT THOSE LOOSE RECOUNT STANDARDS?

This won’t take very long. Because they couldn’t possibly win any other way. Once the legal votes were counted the Gore team knew they had lost.
They knew that the only way they could steal the election would be to change illegal ballots into legal ballots --- legal ballots for Gore.
They had no other avenue

The Supreme Court was, it seems, horrified that the Florida Supreme Court ordered a state-wide recount of only the undervotes without
establishing any set of standards as to just how those undervotes would be counted.
The Court wrote When a court orders a statewide remedy, there must be at least some assurance that the rudimentary requirements of equal treatment
and fundamental fairness are satisfied.
This the Florida Supreme Court did not do.

Another excerpt from the decision: The recount mechanisms implemented in response to the decisions of the Florida Supreme Court
do not satisfy the minimum requirement for non-arbitrary treatment of voters necessary to secure the fundamental right [to vote]

The standards differed from county to county, and, as the Supreme Court noted in its decision, from table to table in the recount room.
Clearly the Democrats should have known that this was not going to pass Constitutional muster
or maybe they thought they could sneak this one through.
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