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To: Road Walker who wrote (119076)	11/23/2000 11:01:29 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "I haven't seen them called liberal before. What makes you think that?" The willingness to legislate from the bench is one of the Hallmarks of Liberalism. Re: "By your own admission, the SC won't "picking the new President" (as you said you believe Bush will win). They are setting rules in the presence of contradictory law, to allow the voters to pick the winner. The legislature, on the other hand, is contemplating changing the decision of the voters if they choose a party that doesn't match their majority. How would you feel about that if it was a "liberal" legislature?" The presumption here is that a handcount is a more accurate and fair method to count the votes. 2 problems with that. #1 there is no evidence whatsoever to support that notion and good reason to believe it is less accurate and less fair. #2 The 14th amendment requires equal protection under the law. The voters in the other counties are not being given the same treatment. Their "dimpled chads" are going into the garbage can while heavily Democratic chads are being resurrected and maintained on life support systems by Democratic controlled election boards. This is about as unequal as treatment can get. If the Legislature chose to invoke "Legislative nullification" they would simply be resorting to existing law which was in place before the election, not created out of thin air afterwards, and restoring the will of the people as expressed in the lawfull election and not contradicted by any reliable election recount. Re: "The SC decision seems to be far more conservative than liberal, giving the most local government body the most power in the decision of how to conduct it's business, which in this case is an election" Before the Civil Rights movement and the Civil Right's Act in the mid 60s the local election boards had power to make their own decisions too. Today we have Republican voters systematically disenfranchised by Liberal Judges with smoking pens. Democrats would never stand for this if Blacks or Gays were targeted in this fashion. How about having a vote over the Rights of Blacks and only handcount the votes in White counties, controlled by White election boards trying to decide the intention of White voter's dimpled chads using standards modified only after the election when it became clear that the Whites were losing? Then a 100% White Court could disregard existing law and create new procedures for giving preferential treatment to White votes. I'm sure Liberals would be the first to support the fair and objective impartiality of the Courts. Don't you agree? EP