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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PartyTime who wrote (117697)12/19/2000 2:46:47 PM
From: Thomas A Watson   of 769670
 
the critical fact that is the key to it all is that in two counties side by side of similar population. One canvas board found one vote in four undervotes and one found one vote in 25 undervotes. A 300% difference over thousands of samples proves to any who have any understanding of how processes work in real would that their was no equal protection afforded by the botched rulings of the Florida courts that allowed this kind of disparity.

It is so obvious how flawed the recount process was.
monitor in Miami-Dade County testified at trial that he observed that three members of
the county canvassing board applied different standards in defining a legal vote. 3 Tr. 497,
499 (Dec. 3, 2000). And testimony at trial also revealed that at least one county changed
its evaluative standards during the counting process.

Palm Beach County, for example, began the process with a 1990 guideline which
precluded counting completely attached chads, switched to a rule that considered a vote
to be legal if any light could be seen through a chad, changed back to the 1990 rule, and
then abandoned any pretense of a per se rule, only to have a court order that the county
consider dimpled chads legal. This is not a process with sufficient guarantees of equal
treatment. An early case in our one person, one vote jurisprudence arose when a State
accorded arbitrary and disparate treatment to voters in its different counties. Gray v.
Sanders, 372 U. S. 368 (1963). The Court found a constitutional violation.

Tom Watson tosiwmee
watman.com The entire Supreme court rulings. Bush wups Gore
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