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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (81127)	12/8/2000 7:35:09 PM
From: CpsOmis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

<<Here's the Kodiak bet (I been wrong so many times once more won't hurt my reputation). Al Gore will never be president of the U.S. because we won't let the courts choose our president. It may get ugly, it may take the Florida legislature and ruin a lot of political lives, but Algore will never sit in the White House as C-in-C. I hesitate to even suggest this, given that this is a public forum and easily traceable medium, but, hey, we supposedly have free speech in this country (provided it is speech the politically correct powers approve of) but if Gore were to pull a coup de 'tat (sp) with an 'illegal' use of the courts, there would be a significant number of people in this country motivated to take him out forcefully. I wonder how many members of the Secret Service would be willing to give thier lives to protect him. This is potentially a very dangerous situation. The hatred of Clinton with his antics have stirred up a lot of crazies, and I'm surprised no one ever took him out. (although there was that guy who dive bombed the white house with his airplane) I think four years of Gorp would send some of these guys off the deep edge. Cosmo

To: kodiak_bull who wrote (81127)	12/9/2000 1:14:12 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95453

Kodiak, I still believe that Mssr. Bush will win any recount, no matter how flawed the standard and no matter that Democrats control about 80% of all local Florida Canvas Boards. But let me put my "legal cap" on. I do believe that the Florida Supreme Court committed significant reversible error. Specifically the inclusion of the 137 votes from Dade County into totals for Mssr. Gore has no rational legal basis at all. As I previously noted, the Democratic Canvas Board in Dade County quickly counted only the 20% of the Dade County precincts that voted most heavily for Gore, the African American precincts. That's where the 137 additional Dade County votes came for Gore. Dade County then stopped the full County-wide hand recount. My guess is that they realized that further recounting may actually reverse that total and give more votes to Bush as the Cuban precincts were counted (45% of the uncounted precincts). So what the Florida Supreme Court has done is to arbitrarily add 137 votes to Mssr. Gore's total from a 20% partial hand recount of the most Democratic precincts in Dade County. 80% of the people's votes in Dade County will be given no second check. That is unconscionable. I can weave a justification for inclusion of Broward County's votes even though as I will post tomorrow one Democratic Insider's diary of events at the Broward County on this Thread only dimpled ballots for Gore were credited (Bush's dimpled ballots were rejected "not showing sufficient intent" as this Democratic insider notes as matter of factly by the Democratic Canvas Board). That is because Broward County, regardless of what standard they applied at least recounted ALL of their votes. Dade County did not. Note that the three most senior and experienced judges on the Florida Supreme Court, all Democratic appointees by the way, voted against this opinion. Finally of course, the opinion gave absolutely no guidelines on how to count undervotes. Does it bother you that the election of the next President of the United States is now in the hands of a group of completely unknown (and unelected) County Canvas Board officials who have been given no guidelines whatsoever by the Florida Suprmee Court to do a partial selective recount of only 42,000 of the 6,000,000 ballots cast in the State? It should.