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

To: Krowbar who wrote (116080)	12/14/2000 4:39:41 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

That's right. The standard under FL law was violative of the US Constitution before AND after the election. The crux of the legal argument was that difering standards from county to county and from table to table within counties violated the equal protection and due process clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Seven justices agreed. Bush won because he was right. JLA

To: Krowbar who wrote (116080)	12/14/2000 4:56:29 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The rules I was referring to come from a little-known document called the "United States Constitution" and a statutory scheme called the "United States Code." Both of them override any conflicting state law such as those to which you keep referring. Take a civics class, man!

To: Krowbar who wrote (116080)	12/14/2000 5:20:27 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 769670

Delbert, Never before in any Florida election have dimpled chads been counted as valid votes as Democratic election officials did in Broward county. (This information was reported on the Neal Boortz web site.) What was going on in Florida was a blatant attempt to circumvent the laws on the books which would have resulted in a stolen election. The Florida Supreme Court would have succeeded in aiding this attempted coup if the USSC court had not intervened. Yes, the manufacturing of votes in a recount is illegal, and the USSC was correct in disallowing the additional votes and the lack of a standardized counting procedure.