I can no longer keep count of how many lawsuits and other actions are
now in the courts in various counties in Florida and heading for the
State Supreme Court. At least a dozen, though some are being
consolidated. More have been added, so the overall count will likely
go up.
There is not even any point in my trying to summarize what the
various camps are arguing about...pregnant chads, due process,
dimpled chads, explanations of why recounts are required, hanging
chads, voter fraud, Carol Roberts switching ballots, swinging door
chads, constitutionality of recounts, rights of African-Americans,
sunlight tests, butterfly ballots, legality of absentee ballots
arriving late, chads, and indented pregnant dimpled chads.
While there were past close elections, and even elections where fraud
probably gave the election to the loser, this looks to be a curiously
modern election: the same lawyers who got O.J. off will get Gore into
the White House.
--Tim May
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