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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (23749)	12/9/2000 11:55:19 PM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

The only area where I have a big disagreement with most is that there never should have been a hand count. I was the first that said Gore was a Dumb Ass for conceding in the first place because it was so close. Like I have said before, the only time all of American voters were equal and on the same footing was the night of the election ending count. If there was to be a recount, then let it be under the same conditions otherwise hand count every vote in America. The moment the Hand Recount began, not to mention the subjectivity of it, Those votes carried more prejudice than all of the others. So the Answer to me is - just simply recount with the same FAULTY method we started with. Volts

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (23749)	12/10/2000 12:47:04 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 65232

Well if USSC rules the FL SC over step it's authority, they will go back Saul's ruling, the nation will accept that, but if they rule to start the count, we are screwed and the FL les appoints, count can't be finished, the nations stays divided and fights, unless Gore or Bush come out with the following, for the good of nations I concede, lets work together to build a better union. G

To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (23749)	12/10/2000 12:53:26 AM
From: Boplicity	Respond to of 65232

Now this becomes a factor. <<Judge Refuses To Toss Military Votes By BILL KACZOR .c The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A federal judge Saturday refused to throw out about 2,400 overseas ballots, most of them cast by military personnel, that were received up to 10 days after the Nov. 7 election. The decision was immediately appealed to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, said Roger Bernstein, a lawyer representing six of 13 individual Democratic voters who brought the suit. He said a request had been made for oral argument Monday. Republican George W. Bush received 1,575 votes among the contested ballots, compared with 836 for Democrat Al Gore. The difference is more than enough to change the outcome of the election. The suit claimed state and federal laws as well as the U.S. Constitution require all ballots to be received by the close of the polls on Election Day and provide no exception. Florida's administrative code, however, requires election officials to count ballots mailed on or before election day as long as they are received within 10 days after the election. U.S. District Court Judge Maurice Paul found the 10-day rule should be considered the equivalent of a federal court order although it was adopted as part of a consent decree between the state and federal governments rather than a court order. Although the Florida Legislature failed to put the extension in law, it ``was fully involved in attempting to enact statutes to satisfy the federal decree.'' Paul also noted federal officials have known Florida and seven other states allow the post-election acceptance of ballots and yet have sued none of them. ``Congress did not intend ... to impose irrational scheduling rules on state and local canvassing officials and certainly did not intend to disenfranchise voters whose only reason for not being able to have their ballots arrive by the close of election day is that they were serving their country overseas,'' Paul wrote. >> hmm right out of left field. G