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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (129016)	11/23/2000 10:05:27 AM
From: stribe30	Respond to of 1579712

Hmm.. the English sure have a diff view of this - or at least, the Register does: 11/21/00 "Republicans peevishly await Bush coronation" Republicans have turned to their favourite tactic of alleging deliberate malfeasance and perfidious intent among their opponents. The accusations are typical of the Republican political art-form: they are at once serious, poorly documented, and sometimes comical. Capitol Hill is clearly gearing up to take the smarm-baton from Florida Republicans if Dubya fails to achieve his coronation. House Majority whip Tom DeLay (Republican, Texas) distributed a memo reminding other Republicans that the US Constitution empowers Congress to reject a state's electoral votes if majorities in both chambers determine that the local election was corrupt. We look foward to further 'evidence' of election scandals, due to appear daily until the Electoral College convenes theregister.co.uk

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (129016)	11/23/2000 10:11:12 AM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579712

"Republican coup d'etat looms as Fla. Supremes affirm Gore" ...Florida's heavily-Republican state Legislature is contemplating a special session to overturn the Supremes and, by legislative fiat, put Florida Secretary of State and Bush collaborator Katherine Harris back in the electoral driver's seat. If it were successful, and Harris were to cut off the manual re-counts in defiance of the Court, a Bush win would immediately take on the feel of a coup d'etat. This would be an immensely unwise move, but Republicans are desperately determined to put their compliant little lad in the White House, so all bets are off. One hopes they would have the simple taste, if nothing else, to restrain themselves from fracturing a state government in their quest of control over the US federal bureaucracy, but no one should depend on it. There remain several thousand contested ballots containing dimpled and pregnant chads (no, we can't keep the distinction, if there is one, straight either) which could put Gore over the top. The Court's ruling left it up to the county canvassing boards to decide which of those ballots should be included. It might behove the Republicans to focus their attack on the contested ballots, and try to get as many excluded as decency would permit. But again the Republicans are at a rhetorical disadvantage, since, ironically, Bush's home state of Texas calls for the counting of ballots bearing chads which are indented but not perforated. The 'will of the voter' is embodied in these indentations, the Texas statute says. It won't look entirely presidential for Dubya to protest the illegality of ballots in Florida which would be legal in Texas, though looking presidential, we must observe, is something the lad hasn't yet got around to learning. ® theregister.co.uk