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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: JDN who wrote (122114)	1/15/2001 2:14:08 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (3) of 769667

I thought the undervotes contained no votes at all-- the Republican machine must have said so a million times. Seriously, let's wait til they're done counting the whole undervote before we say everything is "settled". As a Democrat, I certainly could have lived with Bush winning the recount. What I find it hard to live with is that we had a tied Presidential election, with the winner and loser separated by less than 1% of 1% of the vote, and instead of an orderly democratic (small 'd') process to count the vote as carefully as possible, we had a supervisor of elections who was actively working for the winning candidate and a state-wide Republican machine that conspired to stop any recount while their guy was ahead. The whole system took a lot of damage here -- the state offices of Florida, whose public duty it is to impartially oversee elections, the process of contesting elections, all the courts involved, especially including the Supreme Court, which gave the election to Bush in a decision that made no logical sense as law and which they admitted could not stand as precendent. That is what I really object to -- the damage to our faith in the rule of law.

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