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Doug Miller

In article . com, wrote:

The FLSC was trying to rewrite Florida law to conform
to the 14th amendment. The USSC concurred 7 - 2
that the Florida election as it then stood did not meet
the equal protection requirements of the Constitution.

That's absolute nonsense; in fact, it's the exact *opposite* of what happened.

The FLSC was trying to rewrite Florida election law to conform to its own
preconceived ideas of how the election "should" turn out, including (among
other things) the assertion that when the Florida legislature enacted a law
mandating certification of election results in seven days, it really "meant"
sevenTEEN.

The 7-2 vote by the USSC held that the recounts as being conducted violated
the law.

The difference wa that the USSC also issued an injunction
5 - 4, prohibiting remedy.

Wrong again. The 5-4 vote forced the recounts -- previously held illegal by a
7-2 vote -- to be stopped. Justices Souter and Breyer voted with the majority
that the recounts were being conducted in violation of the law; then, later
the same day, voted to allow them to continue anyway.

You are aware, aren't you, that *every* recount taken post-election showed
Gore lost?

You are aware, aren't you, that the circumstances
met the requirements in Florida law that permitted
recounts under both the contest and the protest
yet Bush successfully sued to stop them so that
the only recounts that were conpleted were completed
after the inauguration?

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that those recounts were being
conducted illegally.

And you are correct, those showed that Gore lost
the popular vote in Florida.

Yep.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.