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lawyers in the land are arguing those issues before federal and state courts.
Once the courts do decide the issues, that's it, and we will soon know who got the most votes in Florida. If the courts decide that the proper and legal to count the votes is to recount them manually, then that is the way it should be done. If not, then the machine count is reflective of the will of the people of Florida and the election is over.
Surely there will be improvements in voting procedures after this experience, but the 2000 election will be over. Are any of us so unpatriotic, and so political, that we would, just to get our candidate "elected ", throw out over 200 years of checl$ and balances, and subvert a final court decision as to the best way to count the votes in Florida? To me, that is the highest form of sedition.
The issue is who got the most votes, not who wins. Any legislator that would even consider ignoring the will of the citizens and "appointing" a president should be immediately removed from office by an incredulous and disgusted electorate.
Frank Reynolds
Washington
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