Chad Gore wants a chance to vote a second time!

[Tim May]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 08:29  AM, Steve Schear wrote:

At 10:40 PM 1/13/2003 -0800, Tim May wrote:

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:23  PM, John Kelsey wrote:

At 10:44 AM 1/13/03 -0800, you wrote:

If you've got your brother counting the votes,
and you can prevent anybody else from counting them,
then you don't need to cancel elections.

Personally, I was shocked, *shocked*, to see the supreme court make a decision on the basis of politics instead of a careful reading of the constitution.

Everything the Supreme Court did in the 2000 election was fully justified. The Dems lost, then tried to change the rules.

Perhaps its my lack of depth in understanding the Constitution and its Amendments, but it seems to me that the robed ones were applying the Equal Protection Clause in a way that could de-legitimize virtually every election in American history. Their intervention and they way it was decided sets a very bad precedent.

Some old Jews and some negroes screwed up their ballots and accidentally voted, they claimed, for Pat Buchanan instead of who they claimed to interviewers they "intended" to vote for, namely, Al Gore. (A ballot designed by a Democrat precinct, by the way.)

It was proper that they were neither given a chance to vote over again nor given a chance to have incorrectly punched ballots altered to give the votes to Gore.



--Tim May
""Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." --Patrick Henry