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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Ilaine who wrote (123628)	1/25/2001 1:01:09 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 769670

A vote which is improperly case isn't a LEGAL vote. The voter has to comply with the rules and the rules are clearly stated. Punch the chad all the way through. So simple a child can comprehend it, but apparently not a Democrat Cobalt, the Supreme Court court have said this -- just ignore rejected ballots, if the machine can't read them, too bad. They did not. It would have overturned a number of precedent cases where courts have ruled that in a close election, officials should make an effort to do a hand count of machine-unreadable ballots to divine the intent of the voters (btw, "divine" does NOT mean "just make it up"). And the "clear intent of the voter" was the statutory standard in place for doing a recount of contested elections, as set by the Florida Legislature. SCOTUS said that hand recounts are constitutional, but this recount was flawed. They fixed that by preventing it from being done at all. Other courts will have to resolve the logical inconsistencies between being so very scrupulous about the equal protection clause requirements for recounts, while not addressing in any way the equal protection clause requirements for elections in general.

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