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To: Carl R. who wrote (310)	12/9/2000 5:59:55 PM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 644

Carl, (vbg) Subtlety is lost with B&W text. I was trying my hand at humour and it must have failed miserably. First of all, I know very little law other than what I heard on the news, and it seems that the FSC judges are well known for activism of a level not normally seen in any judges of such high calibre. Ignoring fundamental legal tenets may be good or bad. Perhaps in their minds they thought that they wanted to ignore legal principles, make a difference and make a positive change for the world! A noble goal if that is indeed what they want to do. Here's the facts : There were 3 FSC judges who wanted to count only Miami Dade undervotes, ignoring the other 64. These 3 FSC judges were willing to allow the outcome of the election of the President of the US be decided by a single county using perhaps counting rules that might or might not favour Gore. Now with this in mind, the high ideals of trying to do what is fair or right regardless of what the written laws say no longer applies, and I question whether they are indeed allowing their desire for a particular winner color their judgment. Consider even the Palm Beach number. Is it 215 or is it 177. 215 was the (partial) number given on the night when Palm Beach failed to meet deadline. 177 was the number sent in on the wednesday when they finally finished the paperwork. The number used by the FSC was 215 for Palm Beach. This is quite interesting because, now if the Martin and Seminole cases were to cross their desks, will they also overturn Lewis&Clark out of anger with the USSC, or perhaps not all of them will go there? But I'm naive when it comes to legal matters, but I believe I have a fairly good sense of fair play. SbH