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To: Biomaven who wrote (2141)	11/27/2000 3:57:22 PM
From: RCMac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 52153

OT >> I have little doubt that if all counties had used the same equipment Gore would have been elected. I also have little doubt that Bush will be the next President. My court predictions are that the Supreme Court will back the Florida Supreme Court to the hilt, and that the Florida Supreme Court will reject further Gore challenges, leaving Bush to carry Florida. << I would agree with all that, with this niggle: Seminole County. There the Republican Supervisor of Elections allowed Republican campaign workers to correct defects in about 4700 requests for absentee ballots from "Republican areas" and just quietly declined to respond to absentee ballot requests from voters in "Democratic areas." The defect was the failure to include the voter registration number, as clearly required by statute enacted after a recent spate of absentee ballot fraud (absentee ballots being a favorite target of voter fraud, and therefore subject to fairly stringent requirements). Bush carried the 15,000 absentee ballots by almost 2 to 1. Where the margin is Florida was 537(?) votes, this may have determined the outcome of the election. This case, brought by a voter, goes before a judge on Wednesday. Even though the illegality (the corruption) and its consequences are clear, the problem here, as with the "Butterfly ballot" issue in Palm Beach, is what remedy can the court order, where you can't trace those 4700 ballots. Strike 15,000 absentee ballots? A revote? Arggghh. Sending the Supervisor to jail doesn't correct the wrong done to the electorate. One "remedy" is that the Republicans can shut up about the Democrats "stealing" the election. <g> All that said, although I voted for Gore (thinking about the Supreme Court, first among many issues), I can live with Bush, just holding my nose when Armey and DeLay and Lott speak up. -- RCM