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They accuse her of attempting to "summarily disenfranchise innocent electors" by adhering to the deadline. Really? Then what about the court's own deadline of Nov. 26? It caused Miami-Dade officials to shut down their recount completely. According to its own logic, the court has disenfranchised thousands of Miami-Dade voters. But the whole disenfranchisement charge is absurd in any case. The plain fact is that any deadline must necessarily "disenfranchise" voters--or it would not be a deadline, i.e., a date after which otherwise legal ballots must be ignored. We must nonetheless have deadlines, or no election would...
...First, the judge laid down his logic: The plaintiff did not provide evidence showing that the results of the election would have changed if the recount took place. Then, one by one, Sauls struck down Gore's arguments, decimating the case David Boies et al. had taken such care to construct over the weekend...
...cross-examination, David Boies called Marais' logic into question, asking the statistician if he'd ever completed a full analysis of the precincts or counties in question...
...character called "I" learns that he does not have lung cancer, as previously diagnosed, and embarks on a journey through China in search of "spiritual tranquility." Reclusiveness attracts him, but he also craves the company of others. His indecisiveness frustrates him: "Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic...
...much of the past week, we've 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...