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...unrepentant Ralph Nader voter [ELECTION 2000, Nov. 20], and I am disgusted by the continued assault on Nader as a person. It is not surprising that the critics have to stoop to attacking his character, because if they bothered to consider the actual content of his message, they would have nothing to say. Once this electoral melodrama has run its course, we will see that Nader was right. No matter who takes office, it will be business as usual. JEREMY RAYMONDJACK Lowell, Mass...
...Scalia missed few opportunities to sneer at Boies for ignoring "equal protection" - what may be sticking in conservative craws the most is the specific inequalities in the current hand count scheme. What could attract Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas is a hand-count plan that codifies the ballot-by-ballot "voter intent" standard strictly, sensibly and statewide. Boies won't get anywhere with them defending the bloated Democratic counts in Broward, Volusia and one-fifth of Miami-Dade that were summarily blessed Friday by the Florida Supremes, and the conservatives on the high court won't relinquish their majority until these...
...Voter responsibility...
...Another thing that seemed to bother Scalia was voter responsibility, as he hinted when he voted for the stay to halt "the counting of votes that are of questionable legality." The rickety old Votomatics are just hole-punching aids; if the voter has neither sufficient passion to puncture a piece of perforated cardboard nor sufficient intentness to follow directions and clean up his chads on his way to the to-be-tabulated pile, maybe magnifying glasses are too good for him. We make a voter make his way to the polls; do we demand so little of him from that...
...They'll tell canvassing boards to use the tough-but-fair "intent of the voter" standard; no counting dimples, unless there's a pattern of dimples. They'll let the Florida legislature know that Dec. 12 is no "checkered flag," as state Senate leader John McKay put it last week, and that waiting until, say, the 17th...