Loki,
"The people of FLA made their selection for the
25 electors to vote for president. It was certified."
Because this was certified by the State does not mean that it expresses the will of the people. It, at best, given the fact that so many votes were cast aside by the machines and in fact were not permitted to be counted by hand, is only an approximation to the underlying "will of the people". Many other estimates of the "will of the people" might be considered, e.g., the machine totals PLUS the collection of ballots which might have been judged as valid upon hand-eye examination. Many other variations of "estimates" of the "will of the people" might have been made, reflecting the operations of local, statewide, and national influences of both political persuasions. Still how they chose to treat the thrown out ballots was slipshod and shoddy, and woefully incomplete. That the process failed to come up with a more generally acceptable conclusion is testament to how sloppily and inadequately it was handled.
So far I don't see how people whose ballots were cast aside because of machine and or card stock problems were provided "equal protection under the law". Not finding a way to insure that all possible remedies to the chaos in FLA were undertaken does not provide such equal protection.
Doug |
