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Originally posted by MagiK:
Ok let me eductate you since you seem to be a bit uninformed on the diferences between state and federal elections process...you see for the federal election there is a thing called the "Electoral College" when you go to school they will teach you about this system and how it works. Suffice it to say for now, that it is the way the system was set up and is the way it has been for about 200 years, Bush won and Gore lost period. There is no electoral college system for the Texas State electoral process...got that straight now? Hope I managed to clear up your condfusion about the diferences between State and Federal.
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Well, to be fair, even given the validity of the electoral process, it did come down to a narrow-margin vote in Florida, where several thousand ballots were suspect at best and just wrong at worst. The ballots in palm beach (butterfly) were a joke -- evidenced by the fact that a perrenially Democratic, jewish community (and it is not prejudice to state the simple fact that most jews are Democrats) "voted" Republican.
It was simply an instance where the margin of victory was less than the margin of error. And the Supreme Court didn't say FL got it right, but rather that its prolonging of the process and ad-hoc recounts were even more wrong than the first count, and that we had to accept what we had as the best we could muster.
[ 05-13-2003, 01:54 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]