Please Jhild, try and at least be real about Gore's intentions will ya?
My assumption is the Ballot machines tend to undercount in comparison to hand counts. The reason is, if the machine sees anything left of the punch, it decides that the ballot was unchosen, and it remains uncounted.
On the other hand, hand counters can decide that partially punched chads were intended by the voter as selecting the given person.
Gore and his team knew machine counts produce lower totals, and more unread cards. So, when faced with a close election loss they decided on a strategy to beat it. Rather than demand a hand count of the entire state, let's go and find some heavily democratic counties near the end of the 72 hour filing deadline, and ask specifically for a hand recount there alone.
This isn't hard to figure out. And yes, it's completely legal and within the law of Florida. However, it is unethical. And I believe you know it.
Gore is still in campaign mode and trying to steal the election from the voters of Florida. He may be technically doing it within the pervue of the law. But that doesn't make it right or ethical.
Bush's only fault was he was slow in realizing the depth of unethical behavior Democrats were willing to go to in order to pull a rabbit-out-of-a-hat.
One of the main reasons Gore and his followers feel impervious to these kinds of unethical manipulations, is because of the biased liberal media's unwillingness to critically examine them. They probably voted something like 90% for Gore as they did Clinton. And would love it if Gore can find a way to win. Even unethically if need be. |
