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Politics : Idea Of The Day

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To: Montecristo No.2 who wrote (35109)11/13/2000 10:28:24 AM
From: James Strauss  Read Replies (3) of 50167
 
Good points mc2...

Unfortunately, the last thing the Bush camp would want is a hand count of the whole state of Florida... Otherwise they would have asked for it... Politics aside, it's obvious to me that Gore would win the popular vote in Florida if all the punch card votes not registered were hand counted...

I believe there is a misunderstanding about those 20,000 punch card ballots that were thrown out... A hand count would count them for the first time... There are 20,000 voters of either Democratic or Republican persuasion that did not have their vote counted the first time because of machine malfunction... I think its only fair that their votes be properly counted... If the machine can't do it than Florida law allows for people to do it... Why ask people to vote if you're going to allow a machine malfunction to negate their vote... The Constitution gives every U.S. Citizen the right to vote... It also implies that those votes should "ALL" be counted...

Jim
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