CDR: Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!

[Declan McCullagh]

Socialist? Hmm. I guess I'm not just a voting-fetishist. :)

-Declan


Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 03:51:04PM -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Declan McCullagh wrote:
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> > 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.
> 
> That's in infaction of the voters civil liberty. To throw away a vote
> because the groups managing the election screwed up is the wrong answer.
>  
> > 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?
> 
> As a citizen you have a RIGHT to have a counted vote, convenience with
> respect to the organizers isn't an issue.
> 
> This, "it's hard, or inconvenient, or it's expensive, so let's don't do
> it" is bullshit socialism when it comes to the rights of citizens, even
> individual ones.
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