Posted on 10/18/2004 10:31:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
A voter who casts a provisional ballot - or ballots - at the wrong precinct(s) is not entitled to have the bogus vote(s) counted, the Florida Supreme Court unanimously ruled today in a blow to Democrats.
Unlike the Clinton-appointed federal judge in Ohio who last week gave election thieves a major victory by ruling for bogus provisional ballots, Florida's Democrat justices had the decency to rule against their own party's activists.
"The court said that the law clearly states that provisional ballots must be counted only if the person was entitled to vote 'at the precinct,' and that the constitution gives the Legislature the authority to dictate voting rules," the Associated Press reported.
In a slap at increasingly violent labor unions and other Democrat pressure groups, the justices pointed out that requiring provisional voters to use the correct precinct was just as reasonable as requiring everyone else to use the correct precinct.
One for the good guys
Boy , I guess the SCOTUS slapped them down pretty hard in 2000, they are scared to enforce their wills FL.
Boy , I guess the SCOTUS slapped them down pretty hard in 2000, they are scared to enforce their wills FL.
They must have learned their lessons
I think the Ohio ruling should be appealed. It would be especially ironic if SCOTUS cited the reasoning of SCOFLA.
I agree and I hope it will be
WTF? Floriduh Supreme Court?
TAKE A FRIG'N MEMO!
Voter intimidation! Disenfranchisement! Bushitler's jackbooted rethugs are supressing the vote of poor underpriveledged female African-American shut-ins on the grounds of a silly technicality!
/lib response
check post# 3 (4) and 5
Considering the FL and OH are in different cicuits, I wonder if DemocRAT acrivists in FL are dumb enough to create a test case to go to the SCOTUS.
An appeal from a state court goes directly from the state's supreme court to the United States Supreme Court. It does not go through a federal district (trial) court or a federal circuit (appeals) court.
Does anyone know how the composition of the Florida Supreme Court has changed since 2000?
It has been appealed - I believe to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
The 2000 members are on The 9th Circuit now.
(lots of sarcasm/)
Looks like they may have actually learned something about following the law after their 2000 SCOTUS slap-down.
Anyone else smell an appeal here...knowing the RATS, they could make a case that uses OH to overturn the FL decision rather than OH using FL to reverse the other Court's decision.
You gotta try to think like them to understand their skeweed logic. I have a migraine....
Yeah, they don't want the reputation of the 9th circuit.
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