In addition to instant runoff voting and nonpartisan redistricting, to give us more choice in our elections, we need a uniform, reasonable ballot access law to allow alternative candidacies (independents and third parties) to have a chance to present ideas to the American public by being on the ballot.
My daughters have voted in a safe, secure atmosphere, and there's a reasonable chance their ballots will be counted -- along with millions more.
This could cut Mr Bush's lead to just 200 or perhaps 700 if you add in a reasonable guess for the overseas ballots.But all these totals exclude so-called "dimpled" or "pregnant" chads (these are the same thing: it depends which side of the ballot paper you are staring at).
And third, that in order to even look at the ballots, which are already admitted in evidence in the case, you have to show a reasonable probability that you will change the election before you even look at the ballots.
Gov. George W. Bush of Texas has taken to defending the rigged ballot rules for New York's March 7 Republican primary as a reasonable test of a candidate's grass-roots support in the state.
"I don't think a reasonable person of good will allow hundreds or perhaps a thousand ballots in which the people intended to vote for Al Gore to be discounted".
The appeals court rejected that claim, ruling that Maine can require organizations to decide whether a "reasonable listener would understand their advocacy as an invitation to contribute to a specific ballot question campaign".
In an opinion read aloud to a hushed courtroom, Judge N. Sanders Sauls said Mr. Gore had failed to prove a "reasonable probability" that the election would have been different if not for problems counting ballots in South Florida.
It would have to be -- I would think a reasonable standard is, would have to be, at minimum, a penetration of the chad in the ballot because indentations are no standards at all.
Justice Scalia said the court must decide whether the ballots that were ordered to be recounted -- ones that on machines showed no vote for president -- were legally cast votes "under a reasonable interpretation of Florida law".
