Jim,
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The tampering is almost always done before and during the voting. Lots of cops stand in front of the polling place in black districts. Dead people vote. Ballots are added to the box. Ballots don't show up. Polls open late. People's names are left off the list. etc,etc,etc. But once the polls close the Republican and Democrat poll workers secure the box and it becomes a legal entity.
The fact that Gores recount gains come from just two counties can mean either that the Republican poll workers were bought off by the Democrats to open the box and add a lot of ballots, or that the Democrat poll workers were bought off by the Republicans and turned their heads when some ballots just weren't counted. My experience is that the Republicans usually have the money to buy off the Democrats and that the Democrats are usually the ones for sale. I live in Pennsylvania. When I lived in SC years ago there was only the Democratic Party, intra-party disputes were settled by lynching, murder, home burning, legal suits usually instituted by the "machine" against mavericks, black or white. The father of one of my high school classmates, who was a lawyer and running for county commissioner against the "machine" was shot in the head while driving home from a court appearance about two miles from my home. His car veered off the road into a cotton field. The farmer who owned the field plowed his whole crop under the next morning along with any evidence.
I don't know what my appropriate political description is but in my last post I mentioned that the 19,000 double punched ballots were most plausibly turned in to the poll workers for another ballot to punch correctly. I don't think any ballot can be tossed in the trash. All the ballots have to be accounted for, including the bad ones. So I think I agree with you that those ballots are not a realy issue.
If you are correct and the mail in ballots show Bush the winner, then Gore will concede. It will not take any "pressure." It sounds like Bush is the man you want. I hope he delivers for you if he is elected.
Regards,
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