Subject: Letters Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 22:44:51 -0600 From: "Armond C. Simmons" Organization: SIMMONSPORT To: Washinton Times Again, our Founding Fathers have proven to be so much smarter than our present day "foundering" fathers. Our Founding Fathers anticipated the political warfare that could erupt in deciding a winner in a close political race as we are witnessing today. In order to preclude this onslaught of vote-searching tactics by the candidates and their parties that tend to mushroom to the point of chaos, they had the foresight to institute a procedure that would be as fair and as simple as possible and to leave no doubt as to the winner. That procedure was to establish an expeditious deadline for completing and certifying the vote count; a deadline that wouldn't permit an idleness that could become a "devil's workshop." At first blush, this procedure might appear more chancy than fair, but in reality it has proven to be equally fair to each candidate. It's no irony that after all the ballot counts, recounts, re-recounts, lawsuits and the reinterpretation of voting laws that the Florida Supreme Court after poring over finding a solution to the chaos (that our Founding Fathers had long ago anticipated), came up with a decision, none other than the "deadline." In essence, it appears, and rightly so, that all the recounting chaos will be for naught and could have been prevented had the lawful deadline been heeded at the outset. If any would feel that this "deadline" approach appears a bit simplistic, be thankful that there was no tie vote. The lawful solution in Florida and many states: the "flip of a coin." Clearly, our Founding Fathers' intelligence was surpassed only by their common sense. Armond "Si" Simmons 104 Wadsworth Lane Pell City, AL 35128 205 338 7378 205 812 9085 fax 603 737 0833 psysim@voy.net http://earth.vol.com/~psysim/dustoff.htm http://members.tripod.com/psysim/msvn.html