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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5815)11/13/2000 2:15:39 AM
From: williamvictor  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
Manual vote counting existed from the 1780's until 19?? in the United States. What Baker is saying is nonsense. There are Republican and Democratic observers for each questioned ballot. It they don't agree that ballot is set aside for later determination. Votes were counted by hand for at least 150 years in the United States. Bush approved of this system in his own state. The Baker/Bush objections are just bunk and every fair minded person, Republican or Democratic knows it. Your assumption that a recount in Duval County of the 27,000 discarded votes would favor Bush depends on a lot of facts which are not reported. Did those discarded votes come from certain precincts? Were the voters in those precincts more heavily Democratic or Republican or evenly divided? What was the cause of the discards? Without that information you cannot tell whether a recount would have favored Bush or Gore? If a recount would have favored Bush, why hasn't Bush asked for a recount? I would be in favor of a manual recount of those ballots. Let it be the way it comes out after a manual recount. If Bush wins, fair and square, then he should be the President. Further, there should be a recount in New Mexico, Wisconsin and Iowa. Those states are all too close.
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