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

To: alan w who wrote (114176)	12/13/2000 11:09:22 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Both parties were legally allowed to complete request forms and have the voter assign their signature. The Democrats had their voters send their requests to the Democratic Party headquarters where they were then delivered to the voting supervisor's office in bulk. Once in that office, they became official documents. The Democrats whose forms were rejected, were innocent requests which resulted not from the Dems mass mailing, but rather from those who independently sought to vote absentee. The Republicans did a similar mailing, however, their form lacked the provision, a blank line, for assigning the Voter ID number. Even though, on the form, it stated the Voter ID must be included, around 2,000 of these forms were mailed directly to the voting supervisor's office where they became official documents. The voting irregularity exists in that the GOP operatives altered offical documents. That's not legal! Klock's argument, arguing a different anti-Gore case, was that the voter must follow the specific instructions in order for a vote to be valid. Technically, the Republican absentee voters did not follow instructions, since those instructions were printed on the form they submitted. It sort of went like like Gore's recount request, except Gore didn't get his recount. But the Democratic Florida Supreme Court, unlike the Bush legal challenge, thought it prudent to count as many of Florida's votes as were sincerely cast, and thus ruled in favor of the GOP in the Seminole County and Martin County court cases. And just think of all the criticism that Florida court took from the GOPwingers when it ruled in Gore's favor that votes should count. There's a river of hypocricy in this one folks. And it's a good part of why I'm so mad about what happened and why I'll never view Bush as a legitimate president: Gore won the national popular votes and, had he gotten his reounct, could have proved that he got more votes than Bush in Florida and, thus, would have won the electoral college vote! Indeed, of the two major political parties, Democrats kinder and gentler--LOL!