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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Srexley who wrote (125074)2/2/2001 1:45:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
I asked Nadine this earlier and will ask you. If all of Al's tactics succeeded and he won by 10 votes, would that have been legitimate to you? My contention is that the margin of victory was SO SMALL that you had to go with the method in place that favored neither candidate. That was the state mandated machine re-count totaled with the overseas ballots.

If Gore had won with his four county recount, it would have been legal but it would not have been accepted as legitimate. My position has been consistent: I favored an orderly court-ordered recount of the entire state.

I suggest that there were no more irregularities in FL than there normally are

Considering how bad a job Florida usually does, this is not saying much. But it is demonstrably untrue in Election 2000; the need to list 10 Presidential candidates created many badly designed ballots with attendant problems. The butterfly ballot was just the tip of the iceberg. Some of the problems (such as 3000 people voting for Buchanan by mistake) were not rectifiable after the fact; others might have been rectified by a hand count (such as voters who wrote in the candidate's name they had just voted for). After all, the machines failed to read nearly 4% of the ballots; that's an unusually high percentage.

I think under the circumstances democratic propriety (small 'd') called for a hand recount of the machine-rejected ballots. Where is the legal basis for saying that such a recount would be unfair to either candidate?
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