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...eliminate residual Christian-centrism entirely from University-speak. Last year, for instance, an official Harvard mailing wished us all a "happy millennial observance," displaying an remarkable lack of respect for those faiths that choose not to follow a dating system based upon an obscure Nazarene carpenter's historically dubious birth...
Given Florida's tough laws governing absentee ballots (instituted in 1998, after fraud led to the removal of a Miami mayor), it seems dubious to let party operatives tinker with signed ballot applications. But the proposed remedy--throwing out all 15,000 ballots--seems extreme. The Democrats "have a strong case if we insist on following technicalities," says University of Miami law professor Mary Coombs. "But ultimately the application went out to the right person, who ended up being able to vote for whom he wanted. Tossing out the ballots seems to be a very peculiar remedy for the harm...
...success of another bit of Bush propaganda has made Americans dubious about the Florida Supreme Court's remedy. And that is a Bush depiction of hand recounts as somehow underhanded, of hand recounts being even more unreliable than machines, of handcounts as being somehow unfair...
...this point, more Americans are going to be dubious about a President Gore than a President Bush because they're inclined to feel that Gore will be installed by a bunch of folks in black robes and by a counting standard that is purely subjective, even fanciful...
...Bush team's second witness of the day, John Ahmann, has the dubious honor of being a consulting inventor of and expert on the infamous Votomatic voting machine. (Just for the record, as Ahmann pointed out in a cantankerous moment, "Everyone keeps calling them voting 'machines' and they're not machines at all. They're 'devices.'" Please make a note...