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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (32304)	10/27/2004 1:59:07 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

People who didn't perform the act of voting, as they were told how to do and have done for a couple of hundred years, shouldn't. I don't recall that being in the election laws. Nor do I think that punched ballots have been around for a couple of hundred years. From the Florida State Supreme Courth decision.... Sections 101.5614(5) and (6) also support the proposition that the "error in vote tabulation" encompasses more than a mere determination of whether the vote tabulation system is functioning. Section 101.5614(5) provides that "no vote shall be declared invalid or void if there is a clear indication of the intent of the voter as determined by the canvassing board." Conversely, section 101.5614(6) provides that any vote in which the Board cannot discern the intent of the voter must be discarded. Taken together, these sections suggest that "error in the vote tabulation" includes errors in the failure of the voting machinery to read a ballot and not simply errors resulting from the voting machinery. There was nothing in the USSC decision that declared that provision of Florida law to be invalid. Didn't she only perform the ministerial act of certifying the results and adhering to the statutory deadlines? I didn't really want to talk about Harris, but doesn't she have the responsibility of ensuring that Florida law is complied with? Was there a problem with my question regarding the ambiguity of a voter selecting Bush and writing in Bush on the same ballot? jttmab