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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Rambi who wrote (70625)	11/11/2000 8:03:26 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) of 769667

Those PB ballots are being counted by an entirely different standard now- and it seems to be a much looser one. The hand recount is not any looser than the machine count. There are a number of representatives of both parties, and they all look at each ballot and reach consensus about it. In general the look only at ballots that the machine rejects as having no holes punched. Hand recounts are very valid and result in better results than machine counts. Texas, which also employs punch card voting machines, uses them as well. One county, Seminole, which voted for Bush, already employed hand counting in its recount and resulted in Bush getting an extra 98 votes over Gore (one third his current overall Florida lead). The Bush campaign did not object to Seminole county's initiative to do a hand recount. You are right that the Bush campaign was not smart enough to request hand recounts in other counties that went for Bush, and missed the deadline for filing such a claim -- too arrogant, I suppose. But such is life. After all it was a Democrat functionary that designed the stupid Palm Beach ballot that resulted in a minimum of 20,000 lost votes for Gore. Kyros

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