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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (108423)	12/9/2000 7:06:56 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Count the votes, if Gore loses you will see disappointment not complaints. Don't count the votes and you will see a festering ill will. I am looking forward to watching you FESTER.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (108423)	12/9/2000 7:10:18 PM
From: JLIHAI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I have no objections to counting. Inventing is a problem. If you read the Constitution (U.S. not Florida), you might be surprised at how much power, if you want to call it that, is granted to elected officials over citizens. Read the counter to the dissent in the USSC ruling. It's a roadmap for Olson (if it's him) to follow on Monday. It also alerts the Gore attorney(s) as to what they will have to argue if they hope to win. The National popular vote is totally irrelevant because it is neither a sufficient nor a required condition to become President Elect. The problem with the Florida Supreme Ct is that the Constitution directs the appointment of state electors to be determined in such a manner as directed by the state legislature. The purpose of the election is to install a Constitutional Government. Popularity or perceived legitimacy by the population at large doesn't really matter because as long as it is established in accordance with the Constitution it is by the only definition that matters legitimate.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (108423)	12/9/2000 7:16:37 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Tiger, you can't see the truth. The vote was counted. President Elect Bush was certified as the winner of the Nov 7 election in Florida after a complete, total, full, count of every vote cast in Florida. Every vote cast on or before Nov 7. Winning Florida gave President Elect Bush the Electoral Vote rightly as he won the populace vote by a landslide of 13 million. Tom Watson tosiwmee author of defendal.home.dhs.org The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth