The Center for Hand-Counted Paper Ballots focuses specifically on the fraud and error of electronic voting machines and the solution of hand-counted paper ballots. However, we include articles about other kinds of election problems, because these are an integral part of the theft of our elections.
Bush v Gore and the Supreme Court as Election Terminator
By Paul Lehto, J. D.
Loser Takes All (Mark Crispin Miller, ed.)
Lehto writes an excellent chapter about the usurpation of the rights of the voters of Florida in 2000 by the Supreme Court of the United States, by halting the recount of the presidential election in 2000 allegedly on "equal protection" grounds. Before Bush v Gore, the voters' intent was universally accepted as an uncontested standard for how to count the votes. In Bush v Gore, the SCOTUS said that voters' intent was "a starting point", but the standard needed to be "objective", and so the actual intent of the voters could easily be taken away. Bush v Gore said that all votes had to be counted the same way. Lehto warns about how in the future, the courts may use this as a precedent (despite protestation to the contrary) to take away voters' rights under the pretense of protecting them. Indeed, the United States House of Representative has already engaged in similar behavior (without complaint from the legislators, the courts, or the mainstream media) in the special election of June 13, 2006 in California district 50 to replace Randy Cunningham after he resigned.
The New York Times: EXAMINING THE VOTE; How Bush Took Florida: Mining the Overseas Absentee Vote
By David Barstow and Don van Natta Jr.
The New York Times, July 15, 2001
In 2001 the New York Times reported about the behind-the-scenes battle that the Republicans and Democrats fought over absentee ballots in Florida. While both sides fought to ensure the counting of as many votes favorable to their own interests, the Republicans went a step further, applying a double standard to disqualify civilian votes that they deemed faulty while counting as many equally faulty military votes.
