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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mph who wrote (630)	12/6/2000 1:15:43 PM
From: arno	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

This is interesting.... There's another factor that should keep any of you from panicking over this Seminole case, and that's a precedent set in a case the Florida Supreme Court ruled on in 1996. In that instance, under very similar circumstances, the court did not throw out or disqualify ballots for these kinds of irregularities. So if this lower-court judge rules against throwing these votes out, then, on appeal, the Florida Supreme Court would uphold him based on their prior precedent - as reported in the Orlando Sun-Sentinel. Four years ago, employees in the Volusia County elections office altered 6,000 absentee ballots. They re-marked them with a felt-tipped pen because a machine couldn't read the marks made by voters. They didn't change anything; they just made the existing marks more legible. Then the loser in the county sheriff race, a guy named Gus Beckstrom, Jr. (which is a good name for a sheriff had he won, Gus Beckstrom. "Sheriff Gus." Sounds good!) sued. The case went to the Florida Supreme Court, where the justices very harshly criticized the Volusia County supervisor of elections, Deanie Lowe, for what happened. But guess what? The high court did not throw out the votes in that race. The incumbent sheriff, Bob Vogel, held on and won, because it was ruled that elections officials do not have to be perfect. All they have to do is substantially comply with the law. This according to Donald Lively, Dean of Florida Coastal School of Law in Jacksonville. So there is precedent for not throwing out these Seminole County ballots, because they haven't been altered at all. They were legally cast. There's simply some question about the way registration forms were filled out. I thought you'd want to be comforted by that, my friends, so stay up. Stay confident, and don't worry if Bush loses this case. There'll be plenty of room for appeal if he does. rushlimbaugh.com