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Article #891Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy
From: Plutarch
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:11
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 01:11
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"Jeffrey C. Dege" wrote: > The Democrats would count the ballots, not like the result, change the > rules for judging the ballots, not like that result, change the rules > again, and count once again. And even if that were not the truth, Dege will simply make up a story demonstrating that there is simply no other interpretation. > Eventually they would have found some set of criteria, no matter how > absurd, that would have given the results they were trying to manufacture. Yup. It's called counting the votes. Not guaranteed to produce the desired result but well known to produce a true result. > And you and yours would have trumpetted it as the only legitimate count. Are you sure we wouldn't have French Horned it? The only legitimate count is a count where all the votes that can be counted are counted.
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