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Texas Gov. George W. Bush's injunction to prevent the hand count in Palm Beach County, Fla. is undemocratic and unwise. By legally pursuing an end to the hand counting, Bush endorses the unfair moral pressure on Vice President Al Gore '69 to concede the election...
...same time, we've learned that close elections do strange things to ostensibly reputable intellects. How else to explain the ludicrous petition that appeared in The New York Times last Friday, urging a "re-vote" in Palm Beach County, among other inanities, on the grounds that Gore won a "constitutional majority of the popular and the electoral vote"? Granted, the signatories included such predictable figures as Bianca Jagger and Rosie O'Donnell, but the arguably distinguished names of NYU Professor of Law Ronald L. Dworkin and Princeton Professor of Law Sean Wilentz were also attached. Perhaps these eminent figures...
...guilty of the most grievous sins thus far, with their feckless insistence, in the absence of any real evidence, that the "will of the people" grants Florida's electors to Gore--and with their reckless promises to forge ahead with lawsuits on behalf of the befuddled voters of Palm Beach County...
With as many as 10,000 ballots in Palm Beach County read by computers as having no presidential vote, Florida election officials made the right decision yesterday in ordering a hand recount of votes in the county. The Bush camp protested the decision on grounds that hand counts will be influenced by political interests and will be inaccurate. But where's the accuracy and fairness in blatantly ignoring the will of 10,000 voters...
...Reported by Tim Padgett and Kathie Klarreich/Palm Beach, Cathy Booth Thomas and Timothy Roche/Tallahassee, Brad Liston/Volusia, Jeanne Dequine and Mary Sutter/Miami and Viveca Novak/Washington