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11/14 Is there a word that describes a body/corporation/government which
claims to abide by the laws but sets the laws and its interpretations
arbitrarily?
\_ Lawful evil.
\_ We call it a 'church'.
\_ Yes, in the Temple of the Supreme Court
\_ Yeah, down with the system, man!
\_ move along, there's nothing to see here, your man lost by
every counting method on the table, get over it.
\_ not to beat a dead horse, ok fine, read this:
http://slate.msn.com//?id=2058603 - danh
\_ Big yawn. The whole Florida election was chock full of
votes that probably should have been counted but weren't
and votes that were counted but shouldn't have. You
can't pick and choose which piles of valid/invalid votes
you'd like to include and ignore all others and then say
"my guy won!".
\_ yes, and i'm still bitter the most powerful man in the
world got elected by statistical margin of error,
and i don't think anything can happen that will change
this, no matter how many "SORE LOSERMAN" t shirts
you throw at me.
\_ But that is what Bush did! Face it man, that election
was well within the standard of error. Bush was
elected by mistake. Literally.
\_ and if Gore got elected it would have been outside
the margin of error? be realistic. it was a close
race, and whoever came out ahead would have had a
statistically insignificant lead. If Gore had won,
that would have been a mistake too. Who cares.
it's over.
\_ Gore is liar and an ego-maniac. Contrary to the media's
best caricature, he is not intellectual - he's
a pro big-government, pro-tax bureaucrat. Just look
at his policy initiatives as VP - they were disasters.
BTW, try to formulate an opinion apart from
parroting the mass media. Why are people in general
so inclined to align themselves with graduates of
journalism school - as if that is a credential to do
anything whatsoever.
\_ politburo
\_ that's paolitburo
\_ paoloburrito |
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| slate.msn.com//?id=2058603 Everything the New York Times Thinks About the Florida Recount Is Wrong! The Sentinel, remember, was the paper that first uncovered the 32 hidden cache of valid, uncounted "overvotes"--seemingly double-voted ballots that, as the 33 massive media recount of Florida has now confirmed, were the key to a potential Gore victory, if only he had known it. Gore instead focused on "undervotes," ballots that initially registered no vote at all. Certainly the Florida court's 34 opinion focuses on undervotes. But the Sentinel 35 had the wit to call up Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, who was actually supervising the real-life recount on Saturday, Dec. Because the comforting, widely publicized, Bush-ratifying spin given to the recent media recount 36 by the New York Times(and the Wall Street Journal, and the 37 Washington Post) has been that--as the Times' lede confidently put it--"George W. If the recount had gone forward Judge Lewis might well have counted the overvotes in which case Gore might well have won. That Judge Lewis would probably have counted the overvotes at the perverse (in hindsight) urging of the Bush camp (which either wanted to delay the proceedings or erroneously thought the overvotes would boost Bush's total) doesn't alter this conclusion. Supreme Court who stopped the Florida count cast the deciding vote after all. By the time the issue of the overvotes was raised before Judge Lewis, on Dec. Any recount, even if it put Gore ahead, would have been chaotic and disputed, as 39 this Sentinel companion story suggests. Had Gore instead asked for a full statewide recount immediately after the Nov. |