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Article #901Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy
From: William "Dave" Thweatt
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:28
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 07:28
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In article <3A679438.B418D256@earthlink.net>, procurator@chaeronea.greece wrote: > "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. > No. The only legitimate count is the one prescribed by law PRIOR to the election (otherwise it would be an UnConstitutional _ex post facto_ law). As we say in the Army "Nexy No-Go!" -- "If you want to know God's thoughts, first learn His language." Superdave The Wonderchemist (old nickname from years ago) Ph.D. Candidate Theoretical Quantum Chemistry North Dakota State University Fargo, ND 58105
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa03c,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa03c,public X-Google-Thread: 109097,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gid109097,public X-Google-Thread: f765b,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gidf765b,public X-Google-Thread: fd321,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd321,public X-Google-Thread: 10c449,b1da3fd7c2453373 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c449,public X-Google-Thread: f8dda,13cdbfdc94512e1d X-Google-Attributes: gidf8dda,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-18 21:40:11 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!news-out.uswest.net!hardy.tc.umn.edu!news.nodak.edu!thweatt From: "William \"Dave\" Thweatt" <thweatt@quantum.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu> Newsgroups: mn.general,wi.general,alt.rush-limbaugh,pa.politics,dfw.politics,houston.general Subject: Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 23:28:20 -0800 Organization: Quantum Chemistry Group, NDSU, Fargo, ND Lines: 40 Sender: william_thweatt@ndts11.pt15.ndsu.nodak.edu Message-ID: <thweatt-EDE2B4.23282018012001@news.ndsu.nodak.edu> References: <3A332650.545B5BFB@hotmail.com> <EKNY5.55113$II2.5051308@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <3A36D36C.7ED6B652@earthlink.net> <7Xo16.29911$wX2.500116@typhoon.austin.rr.com> <3A464946.CF31C1FB@earthlink.net> <3A5A6456.960E60A2@qwest.net> <john-0801012004290001@24-216-78-46.hsacorp.net> <3A5B2F6A.6270AF42@windriver.com> <john-0901011015410001@24-216-78-46.hsacorp.net> <Pine.OSF.3.96.1010109160421.28248D-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> <6M_86.1537$KE.70317@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> <3a65a920$0$46005$272ea4a1@news.execpc.com> <945alf$l6u$1@node17.cwnet.frontiernet.net> <slrn96d4mo.jbp.jdege@jdege.visi.com> <3A679438.B418D256@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ndts11.pt15.ndsu.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.ndsu.nodak.edu 979881885 17110 134.129.109.131 (19 Jan 2001 05:24:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@nodak.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jan 2001 05:24:45 GMT User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.0 (PPC)