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To: Keith Feral who wrote (89608)	12/9/2000 10:14:27 PM
From: Bux	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Keith, it's the Higher courts duty to review decisions made by the lower courts, they didn't "over-rule" the judicial system, they ARE the judicial system. Just because the lower court spent the most time trying the case doesn't mean their ruling should be final. Here we are, one day after your post and the U.S. Supreme Court has over-ruled the State Supreme Court by granting an emergency stay. I don't hear you complaining that the higher court has "over-ruled" the lower court. It seems you only question the procedure when you disagree with the outcome. I don't agree that there is a dire need to stop the count, the legitimacy of the count can be challenged later. The ironic thing is, if all the votes are counted and categorized, there may not be a need for more specific standards, there may be a clear winner just based on the number of votes that rational people can all agree on. It seems short-sighted to not want all the ballots to be counted before the electorates are chosen. After all, this is the closest presidential race ever. Let's at least be confident that the man the people actually elected is the same one we put into office. It seems un-american to fight to make sure the last ballots remain in a sealed bag where human eyes have never even seen them. These are the ballots the machine failed to read and even the man who sold the machines admitted a manual recount is more accurate than a machine. An honorable candidate would sit back and watch the recount and then, if he thought he had been robbed of votes, he could challenge the results. But to interfere with the process, to work to keep the last ballots uncounted until after the contest is over, well that's just cowardly and un-democratic. We already know that more americans voted for Gore than for Bush but the Florida contest is so close, and there are so many ballots the machine couldn't read, that we still don't know who won the popular vote in Florida and therefore which electorates should be sent to our nations capital to choose our next president. Really sad. Bux