Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
by jolux on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:50PM
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Do you have a source for these allegations? It doesn't track my understanding of the Florida recount, and moreover it's pretty indisputable that SCOTUS acted illegitimately, regardless of what the outcome would have been.
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Re:They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)
by yyyk on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:51PM
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See [0] for a SCOTUS-favourable perspective on Gore's original request and how even the Florida court version was tilted. As for recount results, wiki has a decent overview [1].
[0] http://www.floridalawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/L...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...
See especially the NORC results. The wiki entry argues that if the Florida court had continued the proceedings, it may have applied a uniform standard where Gore would have won - but none of the existing orders did that, they used standards where Bush would have won [based on NORC]. Anyway, by Dec. 12 time was running out, the Federal deadline was Dec. 18.
I believe that if Gore had pursued the fair strategy from the beginning than there would have been time enough for the uniform standard recount and no cause for the partial recounts and the appeals that wasted so much time.