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

To: md1derful who wrote (93845)	11/29/2000 4:05:18 PM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Respond to of 769670

the machines kicked out the votes AFTER the votes were cast...no such luck these poor folk in seminole. I am not saying the seminole absentee ballots "should" be tossed. I'm saying there is a legal issue here. There is a law on the books which was violated. The legislature passed very strict election laws following the Miami debacle a while back. Were they too strict, making what happened in Seminole county illegal? Perhaps, even probably, but that's the law they passed. The judge could decide the alteration of the signed ballots was not really against the law. But this would "usurp the legislature" and "rewrite florida law" which Bush supporters claim to abhor. Judicial activism - bad or good? Pick one and stick with it! Personally, I think it is wrong to infringe on anyone's right to vote, whether by clerical error on an absentee ballot or machine error on a punchcard ballot. ... Mezz - I wanted Harry to win, fwiw.