[Vision2020] Make Your Vote Count

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

Donovan et. al.

Some states like Florida mandate recounts when the result is within a certain 
percentage.  If I recall correctly, in Florida this means the vote count is 
within .5% margin between two candidates.

So the first challenge to the results in this case did not have to come from 
a partisan legal effort.  Over and over we heard that Gore was using the 
courts to mess up Bush's win in Florida.  But the initial recount in Florida, which 
was never legally completed, by the way, was mandated by Florida election 
law, not by Gore's lawyers in the courts.

The initial recount in Florida after Bush was declared the "winner" was never 
completed.  Some counties just resubmitted their original election night 
results again!  In fact, none of the court ordered recounts were ever legally 
completed.  Why?  Republican efforts to block the legal court ordered recounts as 
ordered by Florida's courts.  The great party of downsizing the Federal 
government, of championing states rights, used the power of the Federal government 
to overrule Florida's courts to seize the White House.

Here we see the importance of the Federal courts and who is appointed to 
them.  They determined our current president.  This alone is a good reason to vote 
for Kerry, because we know he will not appoint extreme ideological judges to 
the US Supreme Court, or other federal courts, like Bush will.

Ted Moffett 
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