Restore the Fourth

Re:Restore the Fourth by anigbrowl on Thursday July 04, 2013 @07:26PM (#5992853)

Bullshit. You said Bush v Gore had made recounts, plural, moot. I pointed out that this was not the case. So you're saying it made that one moot. Not the same thing, and you know it.

Probably because I don't pay attention congressional elections because I don't live in Florida?

That didn't stop you knowing about the Florida recount in Bush v Gore, did it? I've never even been to Florida, I just read newspapers and use the internet and pay attention to the makeup of Congress.

If I can have some of your Kool Aid

And I thought you wanted to have a serious conversation. Oh well, more fool me.

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Re:Restore the Fourth by cinquemb on Thursday July 04, 2013 @07:44PM (#5992906)

>* Bullshit. You said Bush v Gore had made recounts, plural, moot. I pointed out that this was not the case. So you're saying it made that one moot. Not the same thing, and you know it.*

I didn't say Bush v Gore had made recounts. You said that.

The recounts were underway before the supreme court stopped them in Bush v Gore.[0]

Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), is the United States Supreme Court decision that effectively resolved the dispute surrounding the 2000 presidential election. Only eight days earlier, the United States Supreme Court had unanimously decided the closely related case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70 (2000), and only three days earlier, had preliminarily halted a recount that was occurring.

See the last part: had preliminarily halted a recount that was occurring

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

>And I thought you wanted to have a serious conversation. Oh well, more fool me.

Only as serious as one can converse with a state apologist. ;)

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Re:Restore the Fourth by anigbrowl on Thursday July 04, 2013 @08:40PM (#5993032)

With one flick of the wrist by a couple appointed judges, recounts become moot.

a recount != recounts.

Troll away, but I'm out of this conversation.

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Re:Restore the Fourth by cinquemb on Thursday July 04, 2013 @09:27PM (#5993129)

If you scroll further down the page of the link that I had posted with it [0], you would see that multiple were being conducted.

And to suggest that just because it only happened once, to mean that it can't happen again is naive (but I guess that is in the nature for apologists of the state).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5992013

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