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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chomolungma who wrote (3111)	11/30/2000 4:10:15 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3887

Sorry, you don't know statutory construction. It's standard to put the or after the next to last term. It counts as an or for the whole list. For example, a statute might say a person is guilty of assaulting if someone if they "hit, punch, kick, or othwerwise . . ." That doesn't mean you have to hit, and if you kick but don't hit you haven't assaulted. Any one of the conditions by itself is sufficient. Sorry, but this is a basic rule of statutory construction.