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To: ColtonGang who wrote (5789)	11/12/2000 11:49:53 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) of 10042

GORE MUST BE STOPPED FROM STEALING VOTE Sunday,November 12,2000 newyorkpost.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Former Secretary of State James A. Baker went to federal court yesterday to stop a burglary in progress. He didn't put it that way, of course. He said he was trying to "preserve the integrity and the consistency and the equality and the finality" of the presidential vote in Florida - and, we would add, not just Florida. Make no mistake: What the Democrats are attempting to do in Florida is steal the election, pure and simple. What happens in the Sunshine State determines who governs the United States of America for the next four years. The vote was counted in Florida - and Texas Gov. George W. Bush won, subject to the opening of absentee and overseas ballots. The vote was recounted - and Bush still won. Now the Democrats are demanding a third bite out of the electoral apple - but this time, it is to be a very selective recount indeed. They want to recanvass predominantly Democratic counties - and only Democratic counties. And they want the recount to be done by hand, a process that offers virtually unlimited opportunity for ballot defacement and other imaginative types of election fraud. And get this! They want the inspectors somehow to determine voter intent - as opposed to what the voter actually did. They'll be scouring the ballots for minute dents and depressions that might suggest how a voter would have voted, had they chosen to do so. But they didn't, and that's what must count. Remember that Floridians vote by punch-card. Every ballot that goes through a political operative's hands is a ballot subject to illegal manipulation. The tactical objective of demanding recounts in Democratic counties is clear enough: to chum up enough Democratic "votes" to deliver Florida - and the presidency - to Al Gore. There's no nice way to put this: Al Gore and his lieutenants are trying to steal this election. And they are doing it without regard to the poisonous impact that it will have on the nation. Who could govern effectively in such an atmosphere? Certainly not Gore. That's why it is necessary for Baker and Gov. Bush to do what they had said they hoped to avoid: going to court to resolve the Florida impasse. We don't doubt the Republicans will catch a lot of flak for this decision. Too bad about that. There is only one thing worse than stealing an election. And that is standing passively on the sidelines while an election is being stolen. "Stop, thief!" James Baker said yesterday, loudly. Good for him.

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