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I am a partner at one of the top 25 national law firms. I have been practicing law for more than 20 years. The dream of Martin Luther King is rapidly being extinguished by the new cadre of woke culture warriors. Never in my career have I observed such unabashed discrimination against white males as I have seen in the past 12-18 months. We represent many major life sciences companies, corporations whose names would be familiar to all of you. Our clients have become militant in regulating the skin color and gender of the attorneys who are staffed on their...

On PBS just now. Mr. Markey with Kerry campaign tells PBS that Ohio will be decided in the Courts. Says that all 200,000 provisional ballots must be counted and that will give Ohio to Kerry. He alleges that GOP will no doubt try to suppress the counting of the Ohio ballots. I guess we can the Kerry game plan - Gore 2000 redux.

Hello fellow numbers junkies (Owen, rumrunner, torrie, cajungirl, Brandon, et.al.), time for some more quantitative analysis by the Zapper. Although I believe it is unlikely, let's assume that a Florida court orders a manual recount of Miami-Dade. How many votes can Gore harvest from this county? I'm sure many of you have already seen reports that Gore will not be able to troll enough votes out of Miami-Dade to save his butt. After running my own analysis I must concur with these reports. First, here is the raw data for Miami-Dade: Total votes cast = 625,443 Gore votes cast = ...

Judge Lee (Broward Canvassing Board) and Judge Burton (PBC Canvassing Board) were both just interviewed on Nightline. Burton reiterated that they will look at "other marks" on a ballot to see if a dimple on a presidential chad is corroborated by dimples on other chads. The bad news - he said there may be as many as 6,000 ballots in the dimple pile. I think (hope!) he is probably mistaken. Lee strongly implied that they will use the legal standard of "beyond reasonable doubt" such that if there is any reasonable doubt about intent the ballot will not be counted. ...

Ok, here goes today’s analysis by the Zapper. First PBC: Per an AP report posted somewhere below, PBC had Gore +3 with 103 of 531 precincts officially reporting NOT including the dimpled ballots (which have been set aside). Furthermore, a UPI report indicated that out of 297 precincts, there were 349 dimpled ballots which might be added in later. These broke 276G v. 73B. We can therefore make separate projections for PBC (one for objective ballots and the other for subjective [dimpled] ballots) and add them together. PBC Objective Projection: (531/103)*3 = 15 PBC Subjective Projection: (531/297)*(276-73)= 363 Now for ...

"Pozzuoli said it was unfair for the board to change the rules in the middle of the recount. With 369 of the county's 609 precincts counted by Sunday evening, Gore had gained 95 votes over the official tallies sent to the secretary of state on Tuesday. It remained uncertain if any of the manually recounted votes would be added to the official totals."

Everyone needs to remember that new votes can only materialize from underpunched ballots that were unable to be tallied by the machines. Last week, various news reports indicated that Broward, PBC, and Miami had 6,600, 10,361, and 10,750 underpunched ballots respectively. During the 1% manual recount of PBC, somewhere between 500-600 (I read two conflicting figures) of the 10,361 underpunched ballots in that county were examined. Let's be conservative and assume only 500 were examined. From these 500 underpunched ballots, 47 were deemed votes (33G 14B) for a total "YIELD" of 9.4% (47/500). It has been pointed out this yield ...

Bush should shove the Demonrats arguments right back into their face in order to get the rejected military ballots allowed. In the Volusia Canvassing Board's brief to enjoin the Secretary of State (a suit which ALGORE joined), the Demonrats said the following: "In Boardman, the Florida Supreme Court concluded that the object of an election is determining the will of the voter NOT HYPERTECHNICAL COMPLIANCE WITH A STATUTORY REQUIREMENT. The Boardman Court held '...that the primary consideration in an election contest is whether the will of the people has been effected.'"

The idea that there will be a deluge of Israeli votes for Goron is a myth. The Jewish population of Florida is approximately 700k. This population is super-concentrated in three counties: Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward. Together, these three counties are home to 644k Jews. It is therefore logical to assume that the vast majority of any overseas ballots from Israel would be sent to these three counties. See, http://www.jewishsf.com/bk000310/suppflorida.shtml http://sunsentinel.com/freetime/09180007.htm http://www.jewishsouthflorida.com/ According to the St. Petersburg Times data, the above counties had the following overseas absentee ballots on hand as of Tuesday: Miami-Dade -- 141 Broward -- 37 Palm ...

"But the state cannot certify its overall official results until after it has counted mail-in absentee ballots, which must be postmarked by Nov. 7 and received by midnight EST on Friday. USA Today on Wednesday quoted county election officials as saying they had already received 4,039 absentee ballots in 65 of Florida's 67 counties, a big increase from the 2,300 mail-in ballots counted in the 1996 presidential election." Based upon other stories I have read, so far only about 447 of these are from military folks (i.e. from APO/FPO addresses). See, http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/news_23.html

The Gore Camp basically makes the following arguments: 1. As the later enacted statute, Sec 102.112(1)("may") should control. 2. The statute is inconsistent because if one were to strictly adhere to the deadline the overseas absentee ballots could not be counted. 3. Florida Supreme Court precedent Boardman v. Esteva -- "that the primary consideration in an election contest is whether the will of the people has been effected." From this, they argue that the object of the election is determining the will of the voter and not hypertechnical compliance with a statutory requirement. 4. Florida Supreme Court precedent Republican State ...

Peter Jennings just announced that Broward will not do a manual recount.