The Supreme Court on Bush vs Gore - Jan Crawford Greenburg

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/02/03/Supreme_Conflict

Legal analyst Jan Crawford Greenburg discusses the lasting impact on the U.S. Supreme Court of "Bush v. Gore," the historic decision that determined the outcome of the 2000 presidential election.

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Jan Crawford Greenburg talks about "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States."

Drawing on unprecedented access to the Supreme Court justices, acclaimed ABC News legal correspondent Jan Greenburg offers an explosive account of the struggle to control the Supreme Court and the direction of the United States.

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[CUPCAKEASSASSlN]

wait they count our votes??

[SimulacrumMaster]

@GregWn It doesn't matter who is involved in a recount. Look into the recount that resulted in Al Franken being elected, where both sides and the judiciary were involved. Votes were added or subtracted in districts, depending on whether it helped Franken. One district had more votes than registered voters after the recount, but it was not corrected. The Florida 2000 fiasco was even worse, only revoting would have solved it.

[GregWn]

@DW8814 Votes never counted once. And Bush filed the first court case.

[GregWn]

@SCE2AUX Then Kathryn Harris, after delaying the vote counting for five days, turns around and rules that the counties are too slow in counting and she is going to certify the election without the manual recounts, one day after the Court ruled she improperly delayed the counting of votes by five days! Further, Kathryn Harris sent a member of her staff, attorney Kerey Carpenter, down to Palm Beach County to improperly influence the standard used to recount votes.

[GregWn]

@SCE2AUX If not for the delays caused by Harris and other Republican operatives, including the thugs the stormed Miami-Dade, the Court would have remanded the case back to the Florida Supreme Court for setting a standard to recount all votes, include both under and over votes. As seen by later analysis, such a standard would have resulted in a Gore victory. Gore only conceded because, as the United States Supreme Court ruled, time had run out.

[GregWn]

@SCE2AUX Regardless, despite the fact that the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that equal protection was violated, it only stated that no remedy existed because insufficient time remained for the Florida Supreme to set a standard for a Statewide recount.

[GregWn]

@SCE2AUX And this was just in the one per cent sample of the entire county's votes!). Finally, the Florida State Supreme Court ruled for a recount of all under votes in the entire state, but the United States Supreme Court inexplicably stayed the recount because of irreparable harm to petitioner Bush! 

[GregWn]

@SCE2AUX . This can be seen by the yield rate in Palm Beach; only 5% of the re-examined ballots were recognized as votes in Palm Beach, contrasted with 25% in Broward and Volusia counties. The Palm Beach Post examined the ballots after the election and determined that if Palm Beach County had applied a standard similar to Broward and Volusia, it would have garnered an additional 584 votes for Gore, more than the final certified total of Bush's 537-vote victory.

[GregWn]

@SCE2AUX As a result, Palm Beach county stopped counting during its one per cent review to determine if a full recounting was needed, and the county recounted all its votes to a more restrictive standard. Prior to undue influence by Kerey Carpenter, Gore had gained more than 50 votes; after the standard was changed Gore had only gained 6 or 7 votes (the new standard was so restrictive that it violated the "clear intent of the voter" mandate in Florida law.