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  • #46
    On a related - and deliciously ironic - note, it appears that Katherine Harris' votes may not be counted in the upcoming Florida GOP primary!
    if (Florida Circuit Judge Davey) rules against Harris he will order supervisors to not count any votes she may receive


    It seems that Ms. Harris, a noted stickler for the finer points of the law, failed to resign from her post as Florida Secretary of State - as required by law - when she announced her candidacy. Her opponent in the primary has filed suit to nullify her candidacy.

    There was no dispute over the main facts behind the lawsuit. Harris was supposed to turn in a letter saying when she would resign as secretary of state when she qualified for Congress on July 15. She didn't discover her mistake until two weeks later when she sent Gov. Jeb Bush a letter on Aug. 1 explaining what had happened. Bush appointed former Secretary of State Jim Smith to succeed her.

    Florida's resign-to-run law says that if a state or local elected official qualifies for a federal election and fails to turn in a letter at qualifying, the official is automatically forced to resign.

    Hugh Ferrell, the lawyer representing Hill, maintains that Harris did not follow this law when she remained on the job as secretary of state for two weeks.

    She did not make a "good faith" effort to follow the law, Ferrell told the judge

    Full story here.
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    • #47
      that's beautiful, mindseye! I think I got a tear in my eye reading it.. *sniff*
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      • #48
        Originally posted by Boris Godunov
        First it was not libel, as my intent was not to be malicious, nor did I knowingly say something that was false.
        No such intent is required for a finding of defamation (but is required to actualy recover damages when a public figure is the defamed) defamation can lie at a fault of no more than negligence or ignorance, depending on the jurisdiction. You are even crappier as a lawyer than as a political commentator.
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        • #49
          The state resign to run law cannot affect her status as a candidate for federal office. It is already determined in federal courts that states can not add qualifications to federal offices and specificaly they cannot deny candidacy on a resign to run basis (That case involving the prior resign to run law in Fla). It can only affect her status (automaticaly resigned) in the prior state office. That is some other agurment here that some part of her federal oath form involved filing for congress is defective, but the idiot reporters, as usual in legal matters, do not seem capable of report on the real gist of the case is.
          Gaius Mucius Scaevola Sinistra
          Japher: "crap, did I just post in this thread?"
          "Bloody hell, Lefty.....number one in my list of persons I have no intention of annoying, ever." Bugs ****ing Bunny
          From a 6th grader who readily adpated to internet culture: "Pay attention now, because your opinions suck"

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          • #50
            Nice...but rather a moot point in a party primary, eh?
            Correct.

            My comment was really ment for general elections. Just trying to earn some extra cash as a teacher.

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            • #51
              We should revoke Florida's statehood until they learn to read.
              Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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              • #52
                Then what would you do with Alabama, Arkansas, California...
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                • #53
                  Well, Arkansas can become the Gulag State. Mexico can have California back. Alabama can become a protectorate of Barbados.
                  Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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                  • #54
                    Can we have Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and the Dakotas?
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                    • #55
                      North Dakota you can have, but South Dakota will cost you a little more. Montana and Idaho we don't need. I'll trade you Quebec for Washington and an option on Vermont, Maryland, or Maine.
                      Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

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                      • #56
                        Deal!
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                        • #57
                          Reno conceded Tuesday afternoon. Woulda been nice to see her beat Jeb, just as a poke at the current lump in the White House. McBride has the personality of toast.

                          Gore was in town today, I wanted to go see him but that would have meant waking up pretty early to go someplace I don't know where. Too bad, mighta been interesting.

                          Apparently Miami-Dade and Broward counties gave inadequate training to the older election workers (and isn't that just about all of them). All the ones they interviewed on TV had New York accents.

                          The Republicans are blaming the Democrats, the Democrats are blaming the state, and the state is blaming the counties. The one group everyone down here is saying isn't at fault are the voters.

                          Meanwhile, no one is paying attention to the election scandal here in REPUBLICAN Duval county. Back in 2000, this was the worst county for spoiled ballots. We screwed up again this time. Duval's election mess is again the worst in the state, but the media focuses on the Democratic countries alone, and makes it seem like it isn't a statewide, bipartisan problem.

                          It seems to me that they could have run a mock test here in the state using the schools. Set up the booths in schools and have children across the state pick out their favorite birds and singers, to see if the software works when being used by large groups all at once, to see if the election workers know how to work the booths, etc.
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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