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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8838)	12/13/2000 3:19:39 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 10042

Read a bit further in the majority opinion... I saw explicit discussion about testimony where 3 different individuals derived different opinions about the legality of specific votes. Yeah, I saw that. [By the way, what it said was not that three different people looked at the same vote and formed three different opinions but that three people in the same counting room were interpreting the standard three different ways.] I don't see that as an explanation for the decision, just another example among many of the variations in treatment. There were bunches of examples of uneven treatment. Then the USSC said The State Supreme Court ratified this uneven treatment. Excuse me but... The legislature wrote a general standard, so general that it would inevitably lead to different interpretations, so obviously inevitable that one can reasonably conclude that must have been the legislative intent. The USSC says that the standard is whatever the legislature says it is. The counties inevitably proceed in varying ways within that general standard and the FLSC ratifies what the counties did. Let's review. The legislature has the authority to set the standard and it did. The counties followed the standard. The FLSC ratified what the counties did. Now how did the USSC conclude that the FLSC overstepped? If the USSC has heartburn over the vagueness of the standard, then they should fault the legislature for not providing a more specific one, not the FLSC for deferring to the path legally set by the legislature. You know, Ron, I'm not unhappy about the bottom line. As you know, I "undervoted" and I haven't seen anything from the candidates the last few weeks that makes me think I should have voted for either of them. What distresses me is the shabbiness of the process. I had hoped to see a bit more statesmanship from the USSC, at least. Karen

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