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

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (124982)	2/2/2001 12:12:49 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

If the parties had found it agreeable, yes, a flip of the coin would have done as well. Counting all votes does not mandate surmising voter intent in improperly voted ballots. It may be allowed, but it is not required. Ordinarily, the Florida Supreme Court would be deferred to, however, unless it itself were setting upon an inequitable course, which it was, by accepting partial recounts and not establishing standards. Thus, the stay. After that, a strict construction of the Constitution demanded the cessation of the contest. That was an important point in the post under discussion: those who constituted the majority ruled in character, and therefore may very well have ruled similarly if the result had favored Gore.......