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To: Road Walker who wrote (121925)	12/10/2000 2:39:18 PM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 186894

John, Re: Without the intervention of the US Supreme Court, about 25 minutes ago, all the undervotes in Florida would have been counted. The election would be over You are assuming the legislature act sensibly. gary

To: Road Walker who wrote (121925)	12/10/2000 4:34:58 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Without the intervention of the US Supreme Court, about 25 minutes ago, all the undervotes in Florida would have been counted. But why not recount the "overvotes?" If a ballot shows straight Democratic votes, except for a vote for both Gore and some third party guy, shouldn't we assume that they meant to vote for only Gore? And what about all the Nader voters that would have voted for Gore if they knew it was going to be this close? They just wanted to "send a message," not "throw their vote away." Let's divine their true intent also. And what exactly is an undervote- are dimpled chads votes or not? Gore's Lawyer Boise misled the FSC and the Broward county canvassing board about an Illinois court ruling, and then failed to report the correct information. As a result Broward county did it's own thing in the recount. washingtonpost.com Should anyone care? Or is lying OK when you have the "true intent of the voter" at heart? If anything good can come out of this whole mess, it would be a national and bipartisan backlash against hyper-litigation.

To: Road Walker who wrote (121925)	12/10/2000 4:54:17 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John, <The conservatives win the battle and lose the war for one of their key principles, states rights.> Good point. I for one didn't like the FSC's ruling to restart hand recounts, since they already set an extended deadline for recounts, and the SOS held to that standard. Now four of those FSC judges want to change the rules once again. If they really wanted all undervotes to be hand counted, they should have said so earlier. However, I think resorting to the USSC for a reprive was worse. This is a perfect case of trying to make a right out of two wrongs. I can't think of any way to defend the USSC's preliminary decision to immediately halt recounts, so I'm not going to try. Tenchusatsu