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Justice OConnor had no way of knowing the Bush presidency would be an unmitigated disaster resulting in two illegal, failed wars with thousands of Americans dead, as well as many more thousands with life-long injuries and disabilities.
She can "rethink" the vote count as often as she likes.........Her reflection can never change the numbers....
These pitiful gore suck ups still can fantasize............lol
"It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue," O'Connor told the Chicago Tribune editorial board in an interview. "Maybe the court should have said, 'We're not going to take it, goodbye.'"
"Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision," she said. "It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn't done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day."...
"They had recounts of the votes in four counties by the press, and it did not change the outcome at all. So forget it. Its over!"
According to a massive months-long study commissioned by eight news organizations in 2001, George W. Bush probably still would have won even if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a limited statewide recount to go forward as ordered by Floridas highest court.
Bush also probably would have won had the state conducted the limited recount of only four heavily Democratic counties that Al Gore asked for, the study found.
Florida election recount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe media reported the results of the study during the week after November 12, 2001. The results of the study showed that had the limited county by county recounts requested by the Gore team been completed, Bush would still have been the winner of the election.
However, the study also showed that the result of a statewide recount of all disputed ballots could have been different. The study was unable to review the ballots in Broward and Volusia that were counted as legal votes during the manual recounts thus analysis included those figures that were obtained using very loose standards in its calculations. Since these recounts resulted in a sizable net gain for Gore (665 net Gore votes) they have no bearing on the assessment that Bush would likely have won the recounts requested by Gore and ordered by the Florida Supreme Court.
They do, however, play a major role in the assessment that Gore could have won a recount of the entire state if overvotes were taken into account. Without these votes Gore would have lost a recount of the entire state even with all overvotes added in.
Unless 495 or more of those votes were actual votes then Gore still would have lost. Note these figures also do not take into account a dispute over 500 absentee ballots that Bush requested to be added to the certified totals. If found to be legal votes that would put Gore totally out of reach regardless of any manual recount standard.
It is not that Democrats are any better than Republicans; they are both equally bad. It was just not in the domain of the S.C. to decide things.
Justice OConnor had no way of knowing the Bush presidency would be an unmitigated disaster resulting in two illegal, failed wars with thousands of Americans dead, as well as many more thousands with life-long injuries and disabilities.
Decisions have consequences.
It is not that Democrats are any better than Republicans; they are both equally bad. It was just not in the domain of the S.C. to decide things.
When the State Supreme Courts fouls things up as badly as Florida's did that year, violating laws and the Constitution, the SCotUS had no choice but to step in.
