CDR: Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

[Declan McCullagh]

It would be simpler, and probably fairer (in a general sense) to discard
those ballots that are suspect. Elections such as this should not be
re-run.

Take it down to its most general form. Gore and Bush are tied. My
ballot was mangled during processing and is unreadable; I successfully
sue for a rerun of the election, just for my ballot alone.  Is this a
good thing?

-Declan


On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 09:28:29PM -0800, Tim May wrote:
> At 8:57 PM -0800 11/8/00, Ernest Hua wrote:
> >  > There cannot be a re-vote of the County, or even of the entire State,
> >>  as this would distort the forces acting on the electorate in a way
> >>  never seen before. The Palm County voters would know _they_ would be
> >>  electing the next president. Billions of dollars would be spent
> >>  trying to buy each and every voter.
> >
> >"distort the forces ..."   Lord!  No!  Don't let them do that!
> >
> >Geez, Tim.  What happened to personal responsibility?  Who gives two
> >bits what "forces" will be upon them.  They will ultimately still
> >have to cast a vote which they were casting just days earlier.  Who
> >cares if idiots spend billions to sway a few thousand votes.  That's
> >THEIR problem.  It's free speech, as you have claimed in the past.
> 
> You're a complete idiot if you don't understand this point.
> 
> I made my points, briefly, above. This would not be a matter of the 
> same voters simply recasting their same ballots. Think about it.
> 
> (I'm not convinced you can, Ernest. In reading hundreds of your posts 
> I have concluded that you're just part of Vinge's "Slow Zone.")
> 
> 
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