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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Math Junkie who wrote (39598)11/13/2000 8:37:48 PM
From: Cary Salsberg  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
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The hand count is basically a red herring. The real issue is the re-vote in Palm Beach County.

The Republicans don't want a re-vote because thousands of Gore votes went to Buchanan or the invalid heap. Their first strategy was to stress the urgency of a decision. With this strategy they could not ask for time consuming hand counts in counties that favored them, and they tried to block hand counts in court. The Democrat strategy was to push for "fairness" and minize urgency. They asked for hand counts because the results likely favored the argument for re-vote, they are time consuming, and selected counties could reverse the election results. The Republicans lost their court battle to block hand counts, so they used the Secretary of State to stop them. This will go to court. If the hand counts are stopped, Bush wins. If not, Bush loses unless Republicans ask for a state hand recount. A state recount will provide plenty of time for a re-vote in Palm Beach County and with a re-vote Bush loses.

I firmly believe that election night left a chess game with positions each side had to play and they are competing to win, only to win, everything else be damned. I also firmly believe that if the positions were reversed each side would act the way the other is acting.
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