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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Shadow who wrote (67668)	11/10/2000 12:11:20 AM
From: MKTBUZZ	Respond to of 769667

After all Gore didn't follow the debate rules, why would he follow election rules.

To: Shadow who wrote (67668)	11/10/2000 12:15:42 AM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

But did need court determine if the ballots were legal? Do you believe that people in this country should vote on illegal ballots?

To: Shadow who wrote (67668)	11/10/2000 12:23:11 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You know, there has been a lot written on this thread the last couple of days about abiding by the process established in the constitution and accepting the rule of law. Well, the Constituion establishes not just the electoral college, but also the judiciary. For close to 200 years, it has been recognized that the judiciary is the ultimate arbiter of what the law is. In other words, before someone can abide by the rule of law, sometimes a court must clarify what that law is. Constitutional crises are averted, not created, by resorting to the courts when there is a fundamental legal issue that needs resolved. I am far from certain that a Court is going to order a recount in Palm Beach County. But when 19,000 voters overvote in a single race in a single county, I think there is a fair chance that a court would conclude that that is not a mere matter of chance, but that there may have been some fundamental problem with the system that undermined the electoral process in that county. And the closer the election gets, the more likely it is that a court may determine that such a problem affected the outcome of the election, which after all likely determine the next President of the United States. Good night all.