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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: tejek who wrote (413885)6/11/2003 1:39:34 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Re: "The USSC didn't decide an election."

>>> LOL!

>>> Of course they did. They decided - in advance of hearing arguments - that ONE candidate (out of the two:) could be harmed by allowing vote counting to proceed... a fairly amazing conclusion on it's face!

>>> They claimed the right to halt vote counting under the Equal Protection Clause - claiming that the county-based ballot counting procedures would be unconstitutional, hence illegal, and that there should be State-based uniform ballot counting procedures.

>>> (They did not carry this argument out to it's logical conclusion that 50 different sets of ballot procedures among the many States would ALSO necessarily be "illegal" under their same argument... and that there should be ONE national set of rules - guess they didn't have the 'courage of their convictions' on that point - and they ALSO didn't follow the simple expedient of ORDERING the Florida Supreme Court to mandate one set of ballot standards when counting all the counties' ballots, which would have solved the narrow Constitutional objection they claimed to have.)

>>> Guess that would have been too simple, too logical.

>>> Anyway, they wouldn't have been able to hand the election to their favored candidate that way - it would have been in the hands of the voters.
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