05-13-2003, 02:10 PM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
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.
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How come you didn't bother to bring up the fact that the subsequent after the fact counts all turn up with Bush gaining more votes than Gore upon recounts? Or will you dismiss those stories as ambiguous? All the Supreme court did in this matter was force the Florida Legislature to follow its own laws....when they were wanting to change them mid election. The supreme court did not count the votes.
Edit: TL you know if he asks a smartass question he is gonna get a snippy reply.
[ 05-13-2003, 02:12 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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