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To: Selectric II who wrote (14967)	11/12/2000 11:56:25 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Read Replies (4) of 65232

As a worker in past voting counts, I take great exception 2 "no objective standards" b/s promulgated by the Baker mouthpiece for the Bush camp. Unless you've sat on your ass behind a table flanked by blue-hairs who are slower than molasses, and sat there for hours .......and hours .............. and hours on your [sic]end, doing the vote count thang the hard way... by tally sheets, you have NO CLUE as to how objective a hand count is. And each and every decision made by the "hand counter" is observed/witnessed by at least ONE member of each political party, so there are 3 "objective" standards right there. Furthermore, all these "procedures aka objective standards" are set out in state law ad nauseum. REMEMBER: WE USED TO HAND TALLY GENERAL ELECTIONS LOOOOOOOONG BEFORE WE EVER USED A VOTING MACHINE IN THIS COUNTRY!!!!!! I am incensed that talking heads for the Bush campaign would utter such absolutely inaccurate pap repeatedly. Obviously Baker has never gotten his hands dirty at a local election precint/parish or volunteered at the county clerk's office in his "august" but misguided career. Besides, he wasn't such a hot Sec'y of State as I recall. Or maybe I shouldn't...<grin> carry on...now that I've stood up for the local blue-hairs! BTW, if Bush via Baker and their attack of the blue-hairs is any indication of the REEEEEAL attitude of the potential Bush Admin's policy toward the "senior citizens" of this great land...we are ALL in trouble!!!!! Anyone of us getting younger by the minute here on the porch? I just hope I have enough hair left to turn "blue" by (Grecian Formulae?) by the time Bush or Gore leaves office...whether in a box or a ballot box... O/49r

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