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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Republicans filed a lawsuit last week in Leon County to compel 14 predominantly Republican counties to get these ballots counted. The Republicans contend that the Democrats had a systematic plan to disenfranchise military voters; the Democrats say they were only making sure that illegal ballots were not counted. The argument that military voters should not be disenfranchised because of factors beyond their control is a solid one, and it has great p.r. value. The Leon County judge listened patiently to the Bush arguments on Friday but then expressed skepticism about whether there was much he could do at this point...
...person, one-vote cases were aimed at laws that expressly gave some voters more representation than others. Florida's recount law, on the other hand, is designed to ensure that all voters in the state get the same vote. A recount should not give a county's voters more or less representation; it should simply ensure that everyone who cast a valid ballot is given a vote...
...election, that he would accept the official outcome. Great harm has been done by Gore's decision, and more is no doubt coming. If he manages to finagle his way to the presidency, his Administration is likely to prove true a dark saying: When you want it bad, you get...
...going on? It is the Bush machine, not the Gore machine, that encouraged supporters to storm the office where Miami-Dade officials were trying to count votes. It is Republican leaders in Tallahassee and Washington, not Democratic ones, who weave lurid scenarios of legislative intervention if they don't get their way. So which side is trying to "change the rules in the middle of the game...
Anyway, it is not the middle of the game. The game is over. We're trying to determine the score. And it's not a game, for heaven's sake! As others have noted, you don't get a gimme for 25 electoral votes. And, for that matter, it's not a question of changing the rules. The dispute is about what the rules are. And turning to the courts to settle such disputes is part of the rules...