Scott McFadden wrote:
Only Volusia County was able to comply with the recount "deadline" as
set forth in the law prior to the election. Palm Beach, Dade, and
Broward could not. The original "deadline" for recounts was changed
for that reason.

AFAIK the deadline was not changed until the court started interfering.
When the court stops the recount before the deadline, then restarts it,
what does that say about 1- the partisanship of the court and 2- the
claim that "they changed the rules"?



Things were so hopeless in SE FL the Fl House of Rep's assembled and
were preparing, in essence, to vote to determine whom the electorial
votes of FL would be cast for..

Doug, who do you suppose they would have voted for?

No doubt the end result would have been the same. That would have been a
more legitimate process than what actually occured.



In any event, how do you feel about the Republicans throwing away
Democrat absentee ballots wholesale? Happened in a few counties.


Got a cite for that one? I am in Cen FL and I missed that one.

Sure, it was all over the news. Funny thing, when I went to search for
it I must have it a typo, because it came back asking "Did you mean
'throwing away ballots Florida election 200'?"


Btw, speaking of trying to "throw away absentee ballots" here is what
your "choir boys" tried to pull.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...44835-2000Dec8


That's actually part of what I was talking about.

Yap all you want about how your "Champions of Democracy" got
"cheated".

So you're saying it's OK to let partisan operatives tamper with ballots,
as long as your side wins? That's exactly what happened here, and what
the suit was trying to remedy.


Pathetic. Kinda like the Gambino crime family complaining to the NYPD
because Gotti's mobsters "roughed 'em up".

Umm, no. It's more like the police letting the Gambino family into
police files so they can throw away all prior arrest records, then
letting them go because they had no prior arrests.

Without blatant partisanship of the Supreme Court, none of this would
have stood.



The 2000 election, *especially* in Florida, was a tremendous defeat for
democracy in America.


No, it just showed what we in the rest of FL already knew. SE FL has
repeatedly demonstrated the very same "disturbances" effecting local
elections in the past. But, noboby outside of there really gives a
**** about which local hoodlums are elected. POTUS is a whole other
matter.

Now, the whole wide world knows local government in SE FL is "third
world class" corrupt and incompetant.Not just in the local elections
office, either. School Boards, County commissions, Port Authority's,
you name it and its in a "Twilight Zone" of depravity.

Congratulations on this crowning achievement.

I have no doubt another shocking display is in store for '04.

And this display of cynicism is supposed to convince everyone that
you're one of the good guys? Frankly, I know of corruption issues here
in NC that would probably raise a few SE Fla eyebrows... but that
doesn't mean we're proud of it or try to tell others that it's OK
because our guy won. And AFAIK the election boards are mostly non partisan.

Regards
Doug King