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...Would letting cameras in have ill effects sometimes? Maybe. OK, probably. But this is a country where we don't submit to such considerations. Democracy itself has ill effects sometimes. Voters make bad choices; look at any list of California ballot propositions. We stick with democracy, not because it's always the best system, but simply because it's the right...
...heard increasingly convincing arguments that the Bush case before the U.S. Supreme Court is essentially meaningless. Even if the Court rules in favor of the governor, the logic goes, and agrees that the Florida Supreme Court did not have the authority to extend the certification deadline to allow more ballot counting to take place, the immediate outcome remains the same. After all, Bush came out ahead before and after the recounts, and what is now being battled in Florida's courts is a separate issue - a contest of the final, certified result. So why hasn't the Bush team dropped...
...will. Because next week, Clark plans to rule whether or not to toss out a very big stack of absentee ballots from Seminole County after Republican operatives filled out missing information on absentee ballot applications. Local Democratic activists charge that the extra help - mostly with voter ID numbers left off the form - constitutes improper conduct and discrimination against Democratic applicants, whose similarly incomplete forms were presumably rejected...
...arbitrarily mess things up, but, as we've seen, devolving power to state and local officials doesn't solve the problem of homosapient-ism, which is to say that human beings have biases, perspectives, quirks, and make errors. (Theresa LePore, a Democrat, tried to help seniors read the ballot in Palm Beach by making the type-face bolder. In doing so, she had to re-arrange candidate's names. That might have cost her candidate the presidency.) Good intentions, unstable consequences. A fudged solution...
...line: The Democrats haven't shown much inclination lately to play this trump card, but with a revote suit before the Florida Supremes, the Bush camp is taking no chances. The Bush line? Too late. Bristow insisted that "anyone who has concern about the form of the ballot has to express it before the election." And besides, it was designed and approved by Democrats...