Republican George W. Bush extended his lead in Florida to more than 900 votes as overseas absentee ballots were counted Saturday, but no victor in the presidential race will emerge for at least a few more days.
<<Republican George W. Bush extended his lead in Florida to more than 900 votes as overseas absentee ballots were counted Saturday, but no victor in the presidential race will emerge for at least a few more days.
According to an unofficial tally by the Associated Press of 66 of 67 counties, Bush had won 1,375 absentee votes while Al Gore had 748. Bush's lead increased to 927 out of about than 6 million votes cast in the Sunshine State.
Republicans charged Democrats with leading an effort that threw out about 1,400 overseas ballots on technicalities. Democrats acknowledged telling local election workers how to challenge ballots with improper postmarks or signatures.
Gore's chances now rest with three counties that are recounting about 1.6 million votes by hand. Democratic sources told CBS News that they expect between 800 and 1,300 extra votes from the recounts, perhaps enough to win the presidency.>>
Message #35196 from IQBAL LATIF at Nov 15, 2000 7:11 AM
The question is as I have earlier expressed if this was not a close vote would it really matter, all these errors and omissions are part of the whole exercise of voting, how can one determine the true will when the network anounced Gore victory before the voting was finished, morally it had a demoralising impact on Bush voters and close call needs to take that into account too if equity is demanded by hte Democrats.. it is share lie to say that machine count has 5% error, in Voloushia county the difference of votes was 92 in the whole county after manual count, so that goes the whole argument of the 5% error, in Miama Dade they decided not to go for manual count after 6000 or near that votes revealed a difference of 6 votes only,, I think Palm Beach board by proceeeding with manual count has tried to interpret results a little better, they are seeing the light through the holes, but if it is for Fl it can be for the whole country, we have very misses in lot of other places.. I think ballot boxes as far as my mathematical prowess gg is concerned may give Bush hte edge he needs,, on Friday we will see I think Bush get 64% of the votes in postal Ballot, I have based my projection on Dole/Clinton election where Clinton carried the State, still in postal ballot Dole beat Clinton by much higher share, it may be little better this time, I would also assume that Miami Dade opting out of counting would help, in Plam Beach if Vloushia results are applied we get Gore ahead of Bush by may be 300 votes, they will find atleast 600 votes that have light through them.. but in 3500 of the postal ballots if we have even 60% for Bush we get 2050 for Bush and Gore 1450.., Bush will again come on top by nearly 300, this 300 has nailed Gore and will continue htat for a while, if Palm Beach gets more than 600 vote with light we have a problem but even with that I am comfortable so must be Bush camp,, no sleep is lost.. >>
PS..What is happening and what we thought would be on 15th of Nov, very interesting forecast, on that day Miam dade county had decided not to count manually we based our projection on Palm Beach alone, now I think that Democrats after getting 1400 votes rejected on technicalities have noticed that Palm Beach counting will fall short they are now willing to bring Miami back in to get the required votes that can see the light through ... this is nothing but extremely naughty. Most probably by monday FL Supreme court will nail Gore if not we may see him elected by 'light votes' that would be a highly contested victory and manual counts would be rejected by the SDupreme court of US,, if a Democratic FL Supreme court will not stop the injustice the Supreme Court of US would not accpet the manipulated manual couts where Gore gets the vote on 'intentions of the reader' and Gore and Homer are considered one.. |
