One thing that was clear in Bush v. Gore, is that it was a presidential
election that
was not a direct election allowed for the state to select it's
electors that could
have then voted for Gore made a legal
difference.
Bush v. Gore was strange on many levels, as it more or less
called every state
wide election in the US unconstitutional as they are
currently conducted.
(different counties have different voting systems with
different error rates,
which
Bush v. Gore said is unacceptable as all votes
must be handled the same.
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| Well, the simple truth is that both O'Connor
and Posner were Republicans.
Posner
recently wrote that he's not as sure about
being a Republican today, due
to the looney
factor these days, or whatever he called it. I forget the exact
word, but you can Google for it.
I don't think people are supposed to "get
over it"
if they think some wrong has been done.
People are supposed to care
about that. Voting,
to the US, is a Constitutional right, and that
means it
matters a lot that it not be tilted
in either direction artificially, just
because
people get ideologically fervent or greedy for
power. Plus the
court system doesn't have any
purpose if decisions are made according
to
political views of the day or power grabs instead of on the
law itself.
I don't get involved in politics, but
I do care that the court system not be
gamed.
And I care about the rule of law. In some countries,
whoever wants to win
the most just kills the
opponent, but the US was founded on the idea
that rule
of law will be respected, and both
sides will respect it, whatever the actual
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