In this space a few weeks back, the motion was made, unsuccessfully, that we sequester the approximately 60,000 ballots, rather than treat them like the Alger Hiss typewriter or the Sacco-Vanzetti pistol. If the results of the new recount have the effect of increasing the size of Bush's vote, no harm is done. The impulse to explore and re-explore the Florida vote springs from the democratic faddism that overtook us in the past generation. In 1965 we got a Voting Rights Act that forbade a state to insist that the voter know how to read. But the logical extension of this position is to insist that every citizen step up and vote.
Many societies require every citizen to vote.
More blacks than whites, representationally, voted in Florida this time around. To go in the other direction would be to require everyone who voted for Gore to be able to spell Gore. 4520 Main St., Kansas City, Mo. 64111. Let us hear from you.