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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Area51 who wrote (3717)	12/11/2000 9:51:36 AM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 3887

TODAY’S SUPREME COURT HEARING From the Neal Boortz web site Dec. 11, 2000 OK .. by now everybody knows that the U.S. Supreme Court is going to step into the middle of this election mess today. Just after noon they’ll be releasing audio tapes of the 90 minute oral arguments from the Bush and Gore camps. What is the U.S. Supreme Court going to try to decide? What are they going to rule on? Essentially, as I said last week, the Supremes are going to determine whether or not the Florida Supreme Court was acting as a judicial body or as the third chamber --- the Democratic controlled chamber --- of the Florida legislature. The Bush camp argues that the Florida Supreme Court changed state law – for the second time – when it ordered yet another deadline for counting disputed ballots and the official certification of votes. The U.S. Constitution is clear. The power to select a State’s Electors lies in the State legislature, not the State judiciary. The Florida Constitution doesn’t enter into the picture. The legislature sets the rules, and the Florida Supremes aren’t free to change those rules after the fact on the basis of some vague “one person – one vote” guarantee in the Florida Constitution. As for Gore? All they seem to have to go on is this idea that courts have every right to interpret conflicting State laws. All find and dandy – but just where are the conflicts in Florida law? The Florida Supremes haven’t been resolving conflicts, they’ve been making law – a Democratic dominated court making law for the benefit of a Democratic candidate. AN OBJECT LESSON IN JUST HOW THESE VOTES ARE COUNTED So --- you think all of this recount stuff has been fair? After all, what’s the matter with recounting those ballots to see who really won, right? Maybe I can put some doubt into your resolve. We’ll consider Miami-Dade County. This is a county where the Gorons were absolutely depending on picking up a lot of votes. Prior to the first time the U.S. Supreme Court halted the Miami-Dade recount the votes being recounted were coming solely from heavily Democratic precincts. These were the precincts where everyone, even the Bush supporters, were expecting Gore to pick up votes. In this initial recount ALL of the ballots were being counted. Not just the so-called “undervotes,” but ALL of the ballots. The result? Gore gained a little over 100 votes --- then the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to overrule the Florida Supreme Court decision and the counting stopped. OK … fast forward a few days to the next ruling of the Florida Supreme Court. When they came back with that split decision ordering yet another recount there was an interesting oddity --- a bit of a twist. The Florida Supreme Court ordered that the votes that Gore picked up in the Miami-Dade recount that the U.S. Supreme Court halted would be included in the Gore totals. Remember, that was a recount of heavily Democratic precincts … of ALL the votes, not just the undervotes. Then the Florida Supreme Court ordered that the recount proceed … but for the remainder of the recount they were only to recount the so-called “undervotes.” Just those ballots where the machines didn’t register a vote for President. So --- the net effect was to allow a recount of ALL of the ballots in heavily Democratic precincts of Miami-Dade, and then when the recounting finally gets to those precincts carried by George Bush, where Bush would be expected to pick up some additional votes --- you only count the undervotes. If that all seems equitable to you, you have to be a Democrat and/or an idiot. AS THIS SAGA UNFOLDS …. REMEMBER …. There has never been an election in Florida – Never! – Not ever! -- Not even once! … where any county Election Canvassing Board has ever counted a dimpled or pregnant chad as a valid vote! boortz.com