CDR: Re: A successful lawsuit means Gore wins!
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Thu Nov 9 07:42:44 PST 2000
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.")
>
>
> --Tim May
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