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

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (3382)	12/6/2000 6:03:50 PM
From: Area51	Respond to of 3887

Gore's Last Hope? opinionjournal.com Wednesday, December 6, 2000 12:30 p.m. EST The trial is under way in the lawsuit brought by a pro-Gore plaintiff lawyer seeking to throw out absentee ballots in Seminole County, Fla., because Republican campaign workers were allowed to add voter identification numbers to some ballot applications. No irregularities are alleged in the ballots themselves. (There's a similar suit in Martin County.) A Wall Street Journal op-ed piece debunks the suit, noting that Florida law requires only that voters " 'provide' their ID numbers, which was done by others on their behalf. It doesn't say that no one else can touch or fill out applications." Florida case law would seem to be against Gore's proxies in the Seminole and Martin cases. In a 1996 sheriff's race in Volusia County, the Orlando Sentinel reports, county employees altered some ballots after they were cast in order to make them easier for machines to read. The Florida Supreme Court "harshly criticized" the county supervisor of elections, the Sentinel reports, but refused to throw out the votes in the race. A lawyer now representing some Seminole absentee voters told the Sentinel: "If you can doctor a ballot after it's cast to make it so a machine can read it, then you certainly should be able to add a voter ID to an application for a ballot and not void that person`s vote." George Will notes that in its ruling last week dismissing the challenge to the Palm Beach "butterfly" ballot, the Florida Supreme Court sent an implied message to the Seminole County judge: "Don't even think about disqualifying 15,000 ballots--all of them clearly recording the voters' preferences--because some nit has been picked about the applications for those ballots." In that unanimous decision (link is in PDF format), the court wrote: "As a general rule, a court should not void an election for ballot form defects unless such defects cause the ballot to be in substantial noncompliance with the statutory election requirements." Even if a decision throwing out the absentee votes in these counties somehow made it through the Florida courts, it would be illegal under federal law, Mark Levin and Arthur Fergenson argue in National Review Online. They cite a section of federal election law stating: "No person acting under color of law shall . . . deny the right of any individual to vote in any election because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to any application, registration, or other act requisite to voting, if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified under State law to vote in such election." Finally, there is the political problem. Al Gore himself declined to join these lawsuits formally. But as his legal situation grows more desperate, he seems willing to grasp at anything that might offer him some hope of overturning President-elect Bush's victory. In a news conference yesterday, Gore made spurious claims about Democratic applications in these counties being "thrown into the trash can." Even the Gore-crazy New York Times doesn't buy this. In an editorial (link requires registration) the newspaper says that "Mr. Gore should not win by subtracting votes legitimately cast for his opponent." The Times says Gore's "refusal to forcefully call on his local supporters to drop the suit, or to rule out benefiting from its outcome, represents a failure of statesmanship on his part." 'Stick a Fork in Him--Gore's Done' "Legal experts say Gore's chances in Tallahassee now are about as remote as Warren Christopher winning an FSU wet T-shirt contest," reports Jake Tapper in Salon. (We're not sure which possibility we find more revolting.) He points out that time, the firmness of Judge N. Sanders Sauls's decision, and the looming oversight of the federal courts and the Florida Legislature hem in the Florida Supreme Court, which will hear arguments tomorrow on Gore's contest of the election results. Tapper says George W. Bush should "fill out his change-of-address card and load up the truck." Oops Slate's Jacob Weisberg, whom we highlighted yesterday saying Bush would win even a statewide hand recount conducted under Broward County's permissive dimpled-deciphering rules, now says he miscalculated. But he still says Bush would win using any standard more strict than Broward's. Boies to Retire Yesterday's Hotline, the National Journal's subscription-only political newsletter, points out that this week's Time magazine quotes Gore superlawyer David Boies discussing the portion of Gore's contest lawsuit demanding that Nassau County, Fla., be forced to use as its official results a machine recount that omitted some ballots, yielding a net 52 fewer Bush votes, rather than its initial election-night count. "If I can't win that argument, I'm going to give up the practice of law," Boies tells Time. Here's Judge N. Sanders Sauls on that issue: "The court finds further that the Nassau County Canvassing Board did not abuse its discretion in its certification of Nassau County's voting results. Such actions were not void or illegal, and it was done within the proper exercise of its discretion upon adequate and reasonable public notice." Boies Will Be Boies Meanwhile, the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel reports that Boies "has been accused in court papers of buying witness testimony in two lawsuits, one in Florida and the other in New York." It looks like Gore's argument here has even less merit than his other arguments. Although the judge may have a score to settle with Jeb Bush, any decision in Gore's favor should be easily reversed on appeal

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (3382)	12/6/2000 6:56:01 PM
From: Cola Can	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3887

Gore Caught Telling Seminole Case Whopper Anyone who will get on TV, several times, to distort the truth and lie, is capable of anything. This also says this individual wants the Presidency in a very bad way. It is very disturbing to see people actually support an individual like this. The democrat system must be more important than the man in their eyes, but truth is, this puts them on the same level. By supporting the system, they support the man. "For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? Many people have sold their soles this election and for what? So someone else can be President? I look at Jesse Jackson. He calls himself a Rev. He acts like a lost cause, a racist, a trouble maker, and a defender of corruption. Which Christian denomination preaches that? You look at all the players supporting and helping Gore. Can you find "one" decent human being in the group? I cannot. Filing lawsuits cannot take the place of human decency. A court decision cannot put this inside a person. A person who gets on TV several times to lie, cares next to nothing for the people. For a person to lie to me, has a very low opinion of me. That type of person isn't fit to be President. A person who tries to distort and twist the laws, for his own personal gain, isn't fit to be President. The President has to put the well being of the people and the country first. Gore has shown very little concern for either. He has lied to and used people to further his attempt to win. That disqualifies anyone. And what will Gore gain, with all the acts he has committed since Nov 7? And what will all his supporters gain? It will be a prize obtained in a very dishonest manner. This election has shown me the truth. H*ll is probably over flowing with Democrats.