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To: Mephisto who wrote (9742)	7/21/2001 1:06:16 AM
From: Mephisto	of 10042

Letter to The Editor From The New York Times July 19, 2001 The Florida Vote: Rearguing the Case Re "How Bush Took Florida: Mining the Overseas Absentee Vote" (front page, July 15): By the Supreme Court's logic in Bush v. Gore, no overseas absentee ballots should have been counted in Florida, since the standard used produced a far greater denial of equal protection than the neutral, if somewhat vague, voter-intent standard used in a hand recount of other votes. Your study shows that the differing standards for absentee ballots favored Republicans. Thus, if the equal protection clause demands that no ballots be hand counted even though clear intent could be discerned for many under even the most cautious standard, it surely demands that no absentee ballots be counted. According to the Florida Department of State's Web site, Al Gore would have won Florida by 202 votes if no overseas absentee ballots had been hand counted after Election Day. ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ Cambridge, Mass., July 17, 2001 The writer is a professor at Harvard Law School and the author of a book about Bush v. Gore.

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