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John Atkinson
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From: "Michael McKelvy"
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Well preventing the votes from being recounted is worse than frivilous,
it's simply anti-democratic.
They didn't prevent a recount, there had been several, they just
insisted that Florida follow it's own laws.
They certainly did prevent a recount. What were they doing if they
weren't preventing a recount? It is up to Florida to make these calls
not the supreme court.
Certainly that was the case the Supreme Court would have been expected to
make in "Bush vs Gore" according to its recent history of Federal vs States'
rights. However, by invoking "equal protection" in its reasoning, they
have created an alarming precedent in that _any_ election that uses different
counting methods for different groups of voters could subsequently be
declared invalid. :-(
John Atkinson
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