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

To: mst2000 who wrote (124476)	1/30/2001 4:30:17 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

(Yawn). MST2000, I see nothing much has progressed here in the past week or so since I last checked in. You're getting redundant and repetitive, and you're also saying the same things over and over and over....

To: mst2000 who wrote (124476)	1/30/2001 4:52:01 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

mst2000, I agree with you, the decision was political. The courts will be sorting out the novel interpretation of equal protection rights for many years to come. The court ruled that similar ballots must be counted by one standard. (This implicitly invalidates half the elections in this country, which don't have statewide standards.) But, they ruled, it does not violate equal protection rights to use different voting equipment in different counties. Since you can show empirically that different voting equipment has had larger effects on elections than the lack of counting standards, the courts will have to figure out why this isn't a violation. There's a suit in Georgia on this issue right now.