It would be even more fair to have, as Gore has suggested, a full recount of the entire state of Florida. But more fundamentally, the count will confer legitimacy. After all, when 6,000,000 votes are cast but only 537 separate the winner from the loser, and tens of thousands of ballots have never been accurately read, it seems only fair to give those ballots a look-see. I know The System is not always fair. But it ought to be unfair to both parties in the same way.
Nobody wants to throw out the votes of thousands of citizens who did nothing wrong.
Nobody but the Republicans, if those votes happen to be for Al Gore. By the same token, the Florida Supreme Court ruling makes sense. If every vote counts in Seminole and Martin Counties, they ought to count in the state's other counties as well. The Bushies will resort to the US Supreme Court, the Florida Legislature, Tom DeLay and the right-wingers who run the GOP Congress. All Al Gore has on his side are the people, the votes and the law.