Justice prevails: 4-3 ruling in Fl Supreme Court to begin recounting immediately

And the plot thickens. Bush is already appealing, but I think I like Gore's chances.

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How many openings are supposedly coming up on the US Supreme Court in the next 8 years?

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Clutch, how much do you estimate Bush as paid the Republican controlled Florida Congress to call this special session.

Give it up, it's getting old.

(sorry if anyone saw the first unedited post)

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[This message has been edited by Rocketman95 (edited December 08, 2000).]

 

Clutch, you read it too fast. Sorry about that, I edited it immediately.

Thanks for blowing our cover!!

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I LOVE the title of this thread...JUSTICE PREVAILS!

He he! That is comical. Gore represents all that is good, and just! Funny.

Is there any basketball on tonite? I bet TNT has a game on. Maybe TBS?

I am hungry.



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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

 

This entire fiasco is turning into a mystery wrapped inside of a riddle.

My Father is extremely happy. His politics junkie habit will now be exquisitely satiated during the next month.

I, on the other hand, wish it would just end. I really don't care who the next President is any more. Neither Bush nor Gore will hold any credibility with me whatsoever.

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--John Lee Hooker

[This message has been edited by RocketMan Tex (edited December 08, 2000).]

 

Well, they did order a statewide recount. If you're going to have a recount, it ought to really be a recount of all the undervotes, not just ones from handpicked counties.

I just question whether the guy who is going to have to count 45,000 or so ballots and determine the intent of the voter is going to be able to do so in the three or four days remaining. Just a few days ago, David Boies was saying that it would take a week just to count the undervotes in their selected counties. Now they've got at least twice as many ballots to count in nearly half as much time.

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I can't convey my feelings any better than this.

-Turbo

 

HONESTLY . . Do you think either side will get ANY satisfaction
This will probably be the 1st election that
will leave some REAL bruised feelings

Honestly I've always thought of Dems and Reps
and two brothers. .. with snips at each other
This d*mn election is starting to get the
Kane and Abel . . brother thing.
[Or the Menedez Bros and the Public is the Parents]

It is getting ugly in here and out there

no matter what . . after this thing. . .

1/2 the country will think alot of f*ckery
went on and someone stole this election

Rocket River
Civil War. . .not yet but . ..

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I don't see how Gore supporters could complain if the recounts finish on time and Bush still wins (which is not an entirely unlikely scenario. The bulk of the Gore votes may well have already been counted. Even in Miami-Dade, the VP's current lead may not hold up, since Gore's victory in Miami-Dade county was a lot smaller than in other counties and many Republican-leaning districts had not been counted when Miami-Dade stopped its previous count).

And if they count all the votes in time and Bush ends up on the short end, I'm not going to complain. Nothing that Gore has done has been outside of the law. He pursued legal avenues available to him under the law. The fact that the courts may have ruled in ways that were contrary to the law is not Gore's fault.

And really, the Florida Supreme Court may well be regretting their decision to act outside the law in their previous decision. Had they not extended the statuatory deadline for certification, there would be more time to count the votes now. And if the counting is not completed on time, they're only left with two bad choices: The Legislature picks the electors (something they say they are going to do anyway, but I would hope that they would only do so if it was clear that the count wouldn't be finished on time) or the entire state of Florida simply doesn't count.

Seems to me that by extending the deadline before, the Florida Supreme Court made the process far messier than it would've been had they followed the law and the U.S. Constitution and denied the request to extend the deadline. In a way, the court's bad decision is coming back to haunt them.

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Oh, sleep! That's where I'm a viking.

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Mmmmmmm. Sacrelicious.