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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (8853)12/13/2000 4:31:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
Btw, that standard may be general stated, but the interpretation of it is not general. It states that there must be CLEAR INTENT of the voter..


Ron, there is plenty of room for reasonable people to differ within the "clear intent" standard. Say you have a clearly dimpled chad that shows the imprint of a voting stylus. Most standards say you don't count it, some standards say you do. I think reasonable people can disagree about it without fraudulent intent on either side.

Because there is this room for different interpretations within the "clear intent" standard, I think the Supreme Court, in outlawing uneven treatment, just implicitly outlawed general "clear intent" standards. And as Karen so well pointed out, they did not make their reasoning very clear.
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