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

To: BG Smith who wrote (114222)	12/13/2000 11:40:14 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

BG, I'm aware of the reality. The point I was making was that Ambassador-elect Harris' attorney, Joseph Klock, argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that the voters must follow the instructions (relative to punching the chad through cleanly). Please understand my point. That being Klock (read Bush, Harris, Republicans) would not make the same argument that voters must follow instructions in the Seminole and Martin County absentee ballot cases, where the instructions on the request form clearly stated that the requester must provide their respective Voter ID Number. What happened was GOP operatives went into, or took away from, the voting offices and altered offical documents. Once those documents were under the control of the voting office, they no longer belonged to either the voter or the Republican Party. Worse, the GOPer altering the documents provided inaccurate Voter ID numbers to the ballots they were attempting to correct. How would Klock's argument about voters following instructions fly in the Semionle and Martin County cases? The answer is that those arguments wouldn't fly. Why? 'Cause Klock wouldn't make them in those courts. To do so would be inconvenient to his desired result which was to get Bush elected. What started this line of debate was my question that if the Seminole and Martin County cases made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, would the U.S. Supreme Court take into account Klock's argument relative to voter instruction?