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To: Howard S. who wrote (14273)11/16/2000 12:36:32 PM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (1) of 24042
 
Do you think Gore would consent to a manual count if it was done entirely by registered Republican election officials? I don't. He would think that would be biased and unfair. That's the answer to your question.

Come on. Both are politicians. One appears to have won and will go to any means necessary to keep that count and the other appears to have lost and will go to any means necessary to change that count. Everything else, the "machines are more accurate," the "will of the people," the "where will it end," the "pregnant chads," etc, is PR.

Regardless of whether recounts are right or wrong, I have serious problems with "pregnant chads" being cast votes. How can they say that an un-punched ballot is a vote? Are they going to invalidate any ballot that has a clean punch and a "pregnant chad"? It would seem they must if a "pregnant chad" is a vote. What if a person almost punches the wrong candidate, stops (but after knocking up the chad) and then punches the right one? Is this expressing "the will of the people"? I imagine that you can find at least one person who will honestly swear that he changed his vote in mid-punch and submitted his ballot when he made sure the hole wasn't punched. The "pregnant chad" interpretation wouldn't be expressing his will but instead negating it.
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