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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency?
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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (321)11/14/2000 1:01:58 AM
From: Herschel Rubin  Read Replies (2) of 3887
 
The People Have Spoken. Will Gore Listen?
By John H. Fund, a member of the Journal's editorial board.

November 10, 2000

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The most consequential legal battle ever involving an election is about to be waged. Even before the results of the Florida recount were announced, Gore campaign chairman William Daley declared that "if the will of the people is to prevail, Al Gore should be awarded a victory."

Mr. Gore has dispatched a chartered plane filled with 75 lawyers and political operatives to investigate what Florida's Democratic chairman Bob Poe calls "thousands of reports" of voting irregularities. Republicans have sent their own team. The Justice Department says it will review Democratic allegations of missing ballot boxes. Jesse Jackson has called for an investigation of possible intimidation of "minority communities" that lowered Mr. Gore's vote in Florida. "We are talking about voter suppression, frightening people away from the polls," says NAACP chairman Julian Bond.

Unfortunately for Mr. Bond it appears that while only 15% of Florida's voters are black, on Election Day they made up 16% of those who cast ballots. Hardly evidence of "voter suppression."

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[HUH????? GO FIGURE...]


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