This is preposterous and impossible. No court should disenfranchise thousands of voters because of errors in the applications filled out by other voters. The request for such relief is yet another symptom of Gore s hypocrisy and ruthlessness. While there are Florida cases that throw out all absentee ballots, they involved pervasive and intentional fraud and bribery. Since no one in the Seminole County case alleges that people voted who were not registered, those cases do not apply here.
Prior precedent involving technical irregularities is squarely in favor of counting the ballots.
Thus, if the Florida courts decide this case based on their pre-existing principles and do not make it up as they go along, the Seminole County case and an identical case in Martin County will be dismissed. If not, there may be two slates of electors competing for congressional attention on January 6, 2001. That certification has already been filed with the federal government. Senator Mitchell, this is imaginary President-elect Gore.