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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (87009)	12/7/2000 11:23:06 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

For lunch I am working at my desk at home, trying to get some answers to Interrogatories done, and will start with an orange and go from there. Just got through watching the oral arguments in front of the Florida Supreme Court. My take is that the Justices want to find for Gore that the votes should be counted but can't figure out a way around Judge Sauls' opinion, and also are stymied by the impending December 12 deadline. I liked the question by one of the justices, in response to Boies' argument that Judge Sauls didn't look at any of the ballots, "well, did anyone hand a ballot to Judge Sauls and ask him to look at it?" I think Boies just was so wrapped up in his belief that it was a question of law, not fact, that he just didn't think through his presentation of facts very well. There may well have been facts that he could have presented, like a ballot that he could say wasn't counted, or a voter who could say he had a problem, or a custodian/maintenance worker who could say there were problems with the machines. I thought they were going to bring in someone who used to be on either the Miami-Dade or Palm Beach county canvassing board to testify that there were problems with the first row on the machines, I had read in the papers that the person had said that in an interview. Where was she? The two witnesses they did put on were jokes. Oh, well, who knows? Maybe it would be better for the country if Gore won the election through the Florida judiciary, it would make people finally understand what's going on, since they haven't seemed to care to look at it.