Re[3]: [at-l] The Government and The Environment - TOTALLY OFF TOPIC

[shane@theplacewithnoname.com (Shane Steinkamp)]

> "... an alert and informed citizenry might not want those things that you
> consider important.  The citizenry was  alerted during the last
> Presidential
> election - and look who's President," reports Jim.
>
> But only after a Republican dominated Supreme Court stopped the
> vote counting.

The Washington Post reported in April:

"The $550,000 study was intended to determine who would have won if the Dec.
8 statewide recount order by the Florida Supreme Court had not been halted
the next day by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"In trying to answer that question, the newspapers excluded counties that
had already finished their recounts by the time the U.S. Supreme Court
stepped in -- leaving the existing counts in place. Under that scenario,
they said, Bush was the most likely winner -- whether or not counters used a
permissive standard that included ballots that were merely dimpled or only
counted as votes those with at least partially detached chads."

Shane